Be Good To Each Other

Eph.4:29

"Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers."

We all have something going on in our lives, struggles we're facing, troubles we're dealing with, matters we're trying to figure out, challenges we're fighting to overcome, etc. Consider that those you meet on a daily basis are all going through something too, and here's the kicker: you don't know the extent of it and don't have the whole picture, only they do. 

Realizing this, can't we be a little better in our daily interactions? 
Can't we be good and decent people? 

This doesn't mean that we overlook sin, but rather we recognize that the very best thing we can do for others is to share with them the gospel; both in word, and in how we live and interact with them. What does the world see of you?

So much of our time is spent up in our own heads dealing with our own troubles that we rarely stop to consider that others are doing the same thing and we deal with one another according to how those issues affect us at the time. We snap at people because we're stressed, aggravated, or anxious over things. We shoot daggers at others because of how they make us feel, or because of what they say, or because we're just simply not having the best of days. Don't we get so caught up in our own little worlds that we forget to acknowledge the world around us? Everyone is battling something. The devil is after every person in their own way. Life is a battlefield, friends, and we're all soldiers fighting our own personal war. Soldiers need relief, they need time to recover, they need nourishing at times so they can get back in the fight. What are you and I doing to help others get along in this life so they can reach the next?

While we can't help everyone with their troubles, there is something for certain that we know applies to every person we meet: everyone needs Jesus Christ. 

Stop and think for a moment about that fact and ask yourself, "Am I a Christian?" 

Well guess what, for all you know, you may be the only person who will show others who Christ is. By your words, by your looks, by your actions others will see Christ...or satan. Sobering thought, huh? We can either be a help to others by being Christ-like or we can be a hindrance by being a disciple of satan. 

Which are you? Which am I?

Be good to one another. Share that saving gospel of Jesus Christ with those lost and dying in sin. Read through the following scriptures and reflect on their meaning:

1Peter 2:11-17

"Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king."

2Peter 3:9-12

"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?"

James 3:13-18

"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."

Friends, let's go save the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let's truly be a shining light and a proper reflection of the One whose name we wear.


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