PUT YOUR HEART TO IT!

Whoever come up with the seven day bible challenge was brilliant. For those who do not know what am talking about, the seven day bible challenge involved being nominated by a friend on facebook and committing to posting scriptures that ministered to you for seven days, and nominating a friend on the seventh day so that the cycle is not broken…brilliant huh!

It meant that for a couple of months facebook would be dotted with Bible scripture instead of boloney ideas. I felt honored when I was nominated by my friend Gladys and I could not wait to start. Day one day two… then day three, one of those days that nothing is working for you, I could not think of a scripture that spoke to me enough for me to want to share it and worse I was reading one of the minor prophets books, don’t get me wrong, those prophets spoke mostly about exile, Babylon, disobedience…sometime that does not feel encouraging at all and I wanted to encourage.

After quite a while I finally settled on a scripture and posted it, I don’t even remember what scripture it was. I thought about it today and am not exactly happy with that. See our truest deepest and most genuine feelings are in our hearts, that’s why it is written, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Luke 6:45). You cannot sell anything unless you believe it, imagine a guy selling sanitary towels, he knows its work and its importance and how necessary it is, but he does not have to use it. Hence he might not put his entire heart to it, why would he and he would have to use it?

A good deed will always be rewarded.

I realize by posting that scripture, I did exactly what a guy selling sanitary would do (for lack of a better example) a powerful scripture posted for the sake of a challenge, becomes just another sentence. This applies to everything we do in life. Are you speaking or doing what you are doing with the right motives, are you putting your heart and not your pride completely to it? When you post pictures of you doing charity work, visiting an orphanage or visiting the sick, are you doing for people to see how good you are, are you doing it because you want to prove how godly you are or are you doing it for the likes on facebook. See it’s a good deed, but God judges our motives.

A good deed will always be rewarded, the twist is you either do it openly to be honored by men or do it secretly and be rewarded openly by God. (Matthew 6:1-4)

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