Saturday Reading: 2 Corinthians 2 1-2
Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 2 2
2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?
Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 2 2
2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?
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.
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 that we care care. For if we are willing to do that, then we are showing them that there is someone who cares. That is when we can tell them that it is 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 that God is ever present. He is the one that has given each one of us our lives, and He is the one that 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 that item? How about if they used that 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 that there is always someone who really does care! That also means that when we are feeling down, we should be able to get support from those around us simply by asking. The people that care the most are most often the people you see most often…
Points to Ponder:
Have you given someone a hug of comfort recently?
When we mess things up in our lives, there is only one place that we can turn to get real help... back to our Maker!
Have you given someone a hug of comfort recently?
When we mess things up in our lives, there is only one place that we can turn to get real help... back to our Maker!