do good anyways


There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.

It really is that simply.  To do good you don’t have to build a building or have a million dollars or write a business plan.  Just do something that is good. 

Help a person who can do nothing in return.  That might even be the most good.  Mother Teresa said, “If you cannot feed 100 people, feed 1.”  Every body can do something.

Take a few minutes to think about doing good or doing something that is right.  When you choose to do what is right, you choose life.  You choose courage and encouragement.  You choose to be an example to someone who might be headed the wrong direction.

Call them out not by beating them up but by being kind, by doing what is right by doing something that might not be expected.  In fact, plan to do what is right.

Have you noticed that the more you make positive choices that the easier it is to make positive choices?  It starts with one.  It starts with one right choice.  It starts with one act of kindness.  It starts with doing good just once.  Don’t make it harder than it is.

Remember that old story about the guy and starfish?

One day someone saw a guy down at the beach with tons of starfish all over the beach.  The waves were crashing in, but the guy was picking up one starfish at a time and throwing it back in the ocean.  The person looking on said “you cannot save them all”, but the guy throwing the starfish back in the ocean said “maybe not them all but I can save this one.”

Maybe I didn’t tell the story just right, but you get the point.

One act of kindness, one time doing good, one right choice might be the right choice that leads to more right choices that leads you and someone else to God.

Do something good today!  Just do good!

Proverbs 14:22  NLT
If you plan to do evil, you will be lost; if you plan to do good, you will receive unfailing love and faithfulness.

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