Doing Good to All. Be Thankful

Not too long ago, I had wrote a paper on how we had lived in a world that had consisted of, "Vitamins, Minerals and Diseases" due to the fact that is a metaphor on how I had forseen us as people living in this world that we were given to walk, and make ourselves a life on.

Frankly, we take ourselves and everything we have for granted. Look at what you have right now surrounding you. What do you see? A computer in front of your very face. A television? Food to fill your hunger. Water to quench your thirst. A book, for reading. School, for knowledge so that we may become something greater than what we would have thought...we'd never become, ever.
Then one may turn on the television to see; a child starving, with no home, no food, nothing compared to what you have been completely blessed with.
I constantly think to myself, what am I? I do not deserve one inch of this clothing that is clothed upon this very body of mine, nor do I deserve all this that is belonging to me in my very own home. What is it that I've become as a person? Who am I as a person, today? Who am I?
I want to challenge you as people, to think; Who have you become this Christmas. Who are you? I also want you to be VERY THANKFUL for what you have been blessed with because there are so many people out there unlike ourselves who do not possess a home, a family...not even a friend in the world to care about them. I think if we take the time to pray for those people out there, to volunteer at a local food bank, or anywhere to spare our Christmas to really see what it is like to get a taste of reality....I think we'd have a sense of being thankful for what we have in our lives.
I'm not sure of what I'd do without any of this...but a lot of this time in this very December I've really pondered the thought of; if these people out there who don't have what I have, are they maybe less selfish? Are they more thankful? Are they more faithful? Are they more forgiving? Are they more trusting in their God than we are, ourselves despite every single blessing we have, despite the more hardships they're facing?!
Think about it.
I just..really had come to ponder that. I believe those moments, had come for reality to strike me numerously in its own side by side moments.

Doing Good to All.
In this world, we really do have a hard time doing good to everyone we meet, even our enemies...our own friends, family members, you name it. It's difficult. I am guilty of it and so are you. Don't try to run from it, because you can not, so stop trying to..it really is pointless for you to try to. What is the point of trying to run from a burden that you carry on your heart when it'll just get heavier and heavier upon you? How can God forgive you when you can't forgive yourself or the other person in your sight? God is always a forgiving God, but seriously...how can He be forgiving when you can't forgive and forget. Shame. What a shame. Looks like that burden could be there awhile, yes? The right thing to do, atleast forgive the other person, instead of hold a grudge. I know that is hard, trust me I do. I've been there. Yet, the mature thing to do in this life we live is to forgive and forget...despite the forgetting will..take longer than forgiving; sadly.
"Love your enemies as you love yourself." Do it. It is immensely better than what you think. I have attempted this in several ways and it really has chisled me as a person in the heart...as much as the difficulty of the proccess was; God chisles the heart, mind and spirit. Fruit of the spirit is presented to you, sound great? It is, I suggest it to you, no...scratch that..GOD SUGGESTS IT. I'm simply someone who just...encourages you to attempt to get into God's word and reach for Him.
Listen to this:

Doing Good to All: Galatians 6:1-10
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load.
Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share al good things with his instructor.
Do not be deceieved: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from the nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit from the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Let us become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Now that's some powerful words of God, yes? I happened to open straight up to that very section in my Bible lastnight and it happened to really pierce my heart because I know I have struggled in an area of this, like so many others. I had felt compelled to share this in a note so that, we may as Brothers and Sisters in Christ, may share this lesson together to really learn from our mistakes in the world of sin to redeem from this, reach out to those who are struggling with the sinful nature of treating others unfairly, not with love, respect, nor doing good to others, or who are reaping a harvest that is leading to destruction rather than eternal life with our Savior.
Us as humans, face the struggle every where we go to do good unto others..we are constantly told throughout God's word to love one another, respect, do good unto others..you name it. Everything of Christ's actions of how He loved us...we are to show towards one another, yet we cease to do so! We are filthy sinners! Yet, we boast in Him when we are weak for that is when His power is sufficient. Awesome, right?

So, my next challenge for you to do in this life that we are ever so blessed AND given to...do good to others, share God's love...be kind. show the Spirit of the Fruit.
If you have that willing heart, mind and spirit, you would do it. It talks about hearts like ours that in the Bible, I know it does.
Let's be Transformers of this world, Transforming hearts, being a witness to not only a City of a Hill filled with believers, but non believers so that we may fulfill God's will, His loving ever so pleasing will.

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness".-the Lord