Sunday Thoughts February 28 2010

I don’t do enough to help others.

That’s not up for debate, it’s a fact.

At the moment, I do almost nothing at all to help other people in terms of time, resources, finance or even prayer.

Oh, I can justify everything I do and I can justify where all my money goes. Sure I can.

When it comes down to it though, if I need to try to justify what I do do and what I spend, I’m probably not doing the right things and spending my money the right way.

1 John 3: 16-24

16This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence 20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 23And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.