We have to move beyond the naïve expectation that if we do good, people will treat us right. We cannot control how people respond to us.
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him (Colossians 3:17). Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward (Colossians 3:23).
Remember this one fact: Achievement is only determined by who or what we serve.
We have turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. (1 Thessalonians 1:9). The Lord has come to rescue me from the hand of my enemy, and to enable me to serve my Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all my days (Luke 1:74-75).
Most of the divisions between us come from fear. People fear what they do not understand, whether or not it poses an immediate threat to them.
If we are afraid, it is for fear of what He might do to us, and shows that we are not fully convinced that He really loves us (1 John 4:18 TLB).
We cannot overcome another person’s fear, but we can continue to display love in all that we do to allay their fears about us. Learn to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. (1 Peter 4:9-10). Render service with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good each one does, he will receive this back from the Lord (Ephesians 6:7-8).
We have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit (Romans 7:6). Serve one another through love (Galatians 5:13).
Love is the most powerful force in the world. Love, like fire, destroys all its enemies. Never underestimate the gesture of affection; never underestimate the value of any act of kindness.
When we love each other God lives in us and His love within us grows ever stronger (1 John 4:12). Lord Jesus, as I obey Your commandment – to love one another – the darkness in my life disappears and the new light of Your life in me shines through (John 2:8).
The Lord has given me the tongue of the learned to know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary (Isaiah 50:4). If I speak, I will do it as one speaking the very words of God. And I will serve with the strength God provides, so in all things God may be praised through Christ Jesus — to Him be glory and power and honor forever and ever. Amen (1 Peter 4:11).
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