Character and Conduct – 4 March – The Sacredness of Work
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
How about the next time we meet an Eeyore Christian we resist the temptation to ignore them, to belittle them, to try and gee them up, to gossip about them, and instead sit and listen?
OUR Lord always brings back to mind that doing is more than feeling.
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
…lay aside, not all comfort – men have a right to that – but that excess of it which softens and enfeebles the soul
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.
Too often we find ourselves so busy and, to be honest, self-involved, that we can’t stop and check that everyone is really all-right.