HALLEUYAH! HALLELUYAH!! HALLELUYAH!!!
RELEASE DATE: November 14, 2022
WEEK 35: (November 14 – November 20, 2022)
WEEKLY BIBLE READINGS:
Galatian 6: 9 -10 (NIV)
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
INTERPRETATION
Doing good pays. Paul urges the Galatians not to grow tired of doing good. Doing good is hard work especially if someone begins to doubt whether it matters. We live in this part of the world where we expect something in return for every good gesture. Or should we say it’s in human nature? Paul is urging the Galatians to keep living in a way that is consistent with what they believe. However, though the good works will bear fruits, God will often allow His people to see how their investment in themselves to do good matters both in this life and in the life to come.
On one hand, well-doing must respect ourselves. And this supposes that we have been converted from the evil of our ways, for we cannot do well in the ways of depravity and practical evil. Also, well-doing must respect the church. Our first concern must be our personal salvation and happiness, then the body of Christ – the Church. This underscores Paul’s instructions of doing good to family members of believers. In addition, well-doing must respect the world. Believers are not of it, or conformed to it, but they are in it, and they must live to promote its welfare. Therefore, doing good should be without discrimination, it must be for all men.
It’s important to note that well-doing may be of two kinds—subjective, doing well to ourselves simply; objective, doing well towards others. It is quite true that we cannot very well separate these, for, as Seneca says, “He that does good to another man does good also unto himself, not only in the consequences but in the very act of doing it, for the conscience of well-doing is an ample reward.”
On the other hand, efforts to do good are often misunderstood and ill-requited; benevolent plans are ridiculed, motives misrepresented, the kindness of heart abused, and hopes of success treated as visionary and absurd. Still, the conscientious, right-minded, true servant of God is a man of determination; he acts from principle, not impulse; his heart is in the work, therefore he proceeds in it, doing his utmost to discharge the duties God has laid on him. Some who are in this category share in the proverb that doing good without getting the reward has a harmful motive. They have forgotten those little efforts if continuous produce great results.
Beloved, this is a reminder to pursue and do good at all times. The reward for doing good is not only to others but also to ourselves as the reward lies in this world and the world hereafter. Have you been thinking of doing good? Doing good can be as little as sharing your lunch, giving someone a listening ear, paying for someone’s transportation fare and empathizing with someone in grief, etc. Embrace a life of well-doing!
PRAYER
Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Holy Michael, Our Father and Our Lord, thank you for your Word. Forgive us and have mercy on us. We pray this day that you give us the spirit of doing good. Grant us the grace in well-doing. Strengthen us to do what is good only. Help our hearts to run for evil and any appearance of evil. And may we experience the reward attached to doing good. This and many more we ask for through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thank you and God bless. Shalom.
Footnote: “A life without Christ is full of crisis but life in Christ is a great life full of peace. Let that be your Guide & Guard”
Isaiah 59:1 – Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear”