- God is good.
- God is our helper.
- God is not selfish.
- God made everything and has shared it with us.
- God wants us to enjoy what He gave us.
- God wants us to be thankful to Him for it.
- God made the universe, it did not make Him, nor is it Him.
- God made you, God made me.
- God has a good plan for each one of us.
- God is for our good.
- God is not against people, but He is against evil.
- God is for reconciliation.
- God is not the author of bad, evil or death.
- God doesn’t want anyone to be out of His presence for eternity.
- God wants to reason with us and help us.
- God will not finish something off just because it is already broken.
- God will not quench something- even if only a tiny bit of life is left.
- God made us in His image.
- God is life.
- God is the giver of life.
- God is a forgiver.
- God is our Father.
- God is not an evil task-master.
- God knows everything.
- God will give us His wisdom…if we ask.
- God changes hearts.
- God loved the world-He thought it up and made it.
- God gave us Jesus.
- Jesus forgave us.
- Jesus, when on earth, showed us what God in heaven is like.
- God is good.
- Let God into your life.
- God will help you.
- God will protect you.
- God will keep you safe.
- This is who God is.
- God is love.
Tag: love
Helping one can help many
Yesterday, at church, our pastor prayed for all the people hurt or affected in any way by the recent horrific earthquake in Nepal.
Today as I looked at pictures of distraught people desperately looking for missing members of their families, I remembered several Asian Indians who own the gas station in my neighborhood. I have met and talked with them at other times and knew they had family over in that area, and the thought came that I should check about their families.
When I asked if his family was alright, the owner said, “Yes, thank God!” I was immediately relieved, but noticed the look of gravity on his face because of the effect on their home country land.
Returning home, I thought, “I cannot go over there and help physically, I know of no immediate way to get relief to the region, what can I do to help?”
Besides praying for them, the thought occurred to bake something and take to them as a small tangible token of compassion and care on my behalf for them and their suffering people.
They like spicy foods, so my cranberry-orange scones sounded like a good recipe to use, and I took them back to the gas station while they were still warm from the oven, and hoped there wouldn’t be anybody in line… so I could talk to them.
The store looked empty inside and I handed him my cranberry scone gift and told him that since I couldn’t go over there to help and didn’t know what else to do to ease the suffering, I was giving them this small token to let them know I cared about them and their people.
It was a heartfelt moment between two people, two different nationalities, bonding as fellow human beings with like concerns about family, life, suffering and compassion.
He was touched, I felt like crying just from the emotion of the moment, and as I turned to leave, I noticed a line of people had come in behind me, no doubt observing the whole thing. I tried quietly to get out the door.
It was back to business as usual.
Only the love of God can cause something beautiful to come from something ugly like an earthquake.
It’s Just Me…
‘I keep having thoughts that I should go talk to so and so, that I should go help so and so, that I should write an article, book, speak to this person, apply for this job, start this business, but that’s just me and I don’t want to be proud and do what I think, after all, it’s not about me.’ ‘My church doesn’t believe God talks to people anymore so I know it’s not Him…so I guess I’ll just ignore all these thoughts and go about my own way.’
‘Is this right?’
Well, God does use all the ‘ME’s’ out there. He has chosen to use people to speak through, work through, pray through, love through, care though. He doesn’t personally come down and wipe away tears, or sit in the living room and visit with us. He uses us…people. I haven’t heard God speak audibly to me, but now that God lives in my heart, I can hear Him through His word. I may be in a situation and need some wisdom or help, and I say a quick prayer to God, “Help, Lord, I need your wisdom.” And sure enough a verse of scripture many times pops into my mind, or I’ll remember something the pastor said in a message that is the answer to my prayer and everything ends up ok. John 14:26 says the Holy Spirit will bring to our remembrance that which He has spoken to us, so that is what is happening in my life here. Or, I’ll have the thought to stop by and see someone and it turns out they were in need of something that I could provide; sometimes it was just lending an ear, or walking to their mailbox for them, putting away their groceries or taking out the trash.
If we aren’t careful, we can be so concerned that ‘it’s just us’ that we miss many opportunities to do good to others, because we were afraid of stepping out on a ‘hunch’ we had… that could have been a real blessing to another person.
And I have found when the other person is blessed, so am I. The joy and happiness from helping another human being seems to take away my troubles and I feel light and refreshed inside!
Go out and do good to somebody today!
Mrs. Goodfinder 