Daily Devotion for September 21, 2006

Get Ready, Get Set, Go!

 

Remind the people…to be ready to do whatever is good. Titus 3:1

 

 We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.  1 Thessalonians 1:3

 

The believers in the Thessalonica church were ready to do whatever was good, because they had first built up faith, hope, and love in our Lord Jesus Christ. Time spent with Jesus is the answer to doing good (good always as Jesus defines good). Jesus himself said, “Apart from me you can do nothing,” nothing good anyway. Just pondering a portion of today’s passage from Titus 1 can help prepare our hearts for doing good. When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

 

 Let God’s goodness get you ready, set and going for doing good today.   Do you know someone who is lonely?  Someone who needs some help?  Someone who needs a hug?  Someone who is in need?  When we do “good” for and to others in the name of Christ, it is God’s way of ministering not only to others but also to ourselves.  All are built up!  So get set and GO!

 

Prayer
God and Father strengthen us by Your Spirit to go about doing good as Your Son and our Savior did when He was here. Let us be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all. Let our work be produced by faith, our labor prompted by love, and our endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. And may You, Great God, receive all the glory. Thank you. Amen.

 

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