Thursday 17 May 2018

May 17: 2 Corinthians 2:1-2

Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 2:2
For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?

Devotion:
If you want to be happy, then the best place to be is around happy people. It is very hard to be happy when you are surrounded by people sunk deep in depression. If you do have any feelings for others, then you too will be deep in sorrow. If you are a true friend to someone, then when they are down, that is the time to go to them and say that you feel for them. Until you know why they are feeling down it is probably not a good idea to burst in all happy and gay. Sometimes just being there for someone is the best that you can do for them.

God is there for us all the time. He is waiting for us every day, every night, every minute in every day. We do not know when Jesus is going to come back and end this time of grace that we are living in so we do not know how long we have to live. What we need to do is to make the most of the time we may or may not have!

How can we do that? Well, we could help others showing them we do care. For if we are willing to do so, then we are showing them there is someone who cares. That is when we can tell them this is all because we have someone special who cares far more for us and is always there for and with us. That is when we can tell them God is ever present. He is the one who has given each one of us our lives, and He is the one who we should be going back to when things are not what we expected.

Consider this. If you made something for someone and they used that item in the way it was meant, would you feel good? How about if they totally ignored the item? How about if they used the item as a murder weapon? God has given us our bodies to do the right stuff. Let us therefore obey His requests and show brotherly love one towards another. Show someone there is always someone who really does care! That also means when we are feeling down, we should be able to get support from those around us simply by asking. The people who care the most are most often the people you see most often… unless you have surrounded yourself with the wrong people!

Points to Ponder:
Have you given someone a hug of comfort recently?

When we mess things up there is always one place we can go... back to our Maker!