Do you encounter people
on a daily basis who need a word of encouragement? What is your
response? Is it patient? Or do you tell them or others how
stupid you think they are? Do you get aggravated and think they
should know how to carry on without a helping hand? Are their
trials trivial? Do you know more than they do in every case? Is
everyone else stupid?
If any of this is
happening, the problem is not with others, its deep inside you.
You are not what God intended you to be. You are full of self.
You are in bondage to self. You are on the broad path to hell.
You must remember at
all times, to serve you must be humble, gentle, patient and
caring, and you must simply put yourself in their place. If you
keep it simple it will stay simple.
If you have never
needed encouragement, then you won’t know what it is to
encourage anyway. But, if you have, you should know that you are
way out of line with your impatience. You need to stop
considering how much more intelligent you are than the person
who needs encouragement, and get on with the encouraging.
You can plow right
through them in selfishness while being unkind and unhelpful.
Or...you can humble yourself and be of some kind of help to
them.
Keep in mind, those who
exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble
themselves will be exalted. There is no other way. Which do you
prefer, to humble yourself or to be humbled? One is coming your
way soon and its you make the choice of which one it will be.
Your actions are also
your testimony and your testimony will read itself back to you
in consequences during your life...And, it will be read back to
you on the great judgment day. The entire world will be there
listening when its read. Everyone who has ever lived will hear
your testimony.
Will it be something
worth hearing or will you be shamed right into the lake of fire?