Your life is being edified when you edify others. Even if there were no retributions for your actions, just the pleasure of doing good is a retribution in itself. Your life was made by God and to live according to God. Every time you deviate from that purpose, you and others will suffer. You were made for a good purpose. Don’t waste your life. You have only one.
Curses on those who drive a hard bargain!
Blessings on all who play fair and square!
27 The one who seeks good finds delight;
the student of evil becomes evil.
28 A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump;
a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.
29 Exploit or abuse your family, and end up with a fistful of air;
common sense tells you it’s a stupid way to live.
30 A good life is a fruit-bearing tree;
a violent life destroys souls.
31 If good people barely make it,
what’s in store for the bad!
(Prov.11:26-31 MSG)
Prayer: Help me to be fair and compassionate, to seek good, and live a God-shaped life. I want to bear fruits that bless others. I want to multiply in others the blessings You have given me. You gave me so much, much more than what I expected, much more than I could humanly handle, I had and still am counting on You to help me manage it, to build other people’s life and to glorify Your name.
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