Hello, all. How are you today? It is Saturday where I live, and I had
several things planned for the day. But things did not quite go as planned.
Nothing earth shattering happened, just life stuff. At any rate, let’s get to
the business at hand; shall we?
You remember that on yesterday after
I had done a rather brief blog, due to being worn out mentally, I added an
"Aside" to my blog. In it, the last cryptic comment that I made was
that Any day above ground can be used as
a ‘Day of Correcting.’ If that
comment had you wondering why I said only that little bit about the title and
nothing else, then good. You did exactly what I wanted you to do. You pondered
over it and maybe even tried to or managed to figure out why I said what I did.
Here is my explanation. With every
kind word, every good deed, every time you brag on Jesus, every time you show
your faith for the world to see, etc., you are correcting something in
somebody’s world. “How so?” you ask.
Good question. Now, let me explain. If you are the Lord’s child, then
your sins have been neutralized. Jesus took care of that a long time ago. That
statement means that He made sin harmless in our lives. He is our remedy for
sin because He did away with the separating distance between God and us. He
corrected that situation (i.e., made the evil situation harmless). Still a
little fuzzy? Okay, look at the couple of bullets that I have listed and they
should clarify it for you.
· The gentle praise and push that he received corrected his
belief that, contrary to what he had been told, he was not worthless and could
go on to do much with his life. (Do you see what kind words and deeds did in
this man’s life?)
· Nobody much paid attention to him. Most people did not even
acknowledge him and he liked it that way. At least he did not have to worry
about being picked on now that he was out of school. Still, he wished that he
had somebody to talk to some time. It was hard living by himself since his mom
had died. That was why he found an excuse every day around one o’clock to go to
the town market. The head checker there always called him, Mr. Bob and always
gave him a big smile. It made him feel like there was nothing wrong with him,
like he was just an average person like everybody else, not a person who had a
disability and not a victim of bullies. The head checker was really nice, and
he hoped that she got a real good
blessing from Jesus because she was nice to him. That was what his mom always
said and he believed it, too. (Do you see what a smile and a kind word from the
head checker did for Bob? The kindness was working on counteracting the feeling
of loneliness and low self-worth that Bob seemed to have.)
I don’t have to name any more
scenarios. You can see what kind words, deeds, etc. can do to people. That is
why I always told my children when counseling them about the treatment of
others, “Be careful; you never know when the kindness that you give may be the
only one in a person’s day.”
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