Helping and acting toward the eternal life:

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Helping and acting toward the eternal life:

• “The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward. So righteousness tends to life; but one pursuing evil, it is to his own death.” (Proverbs 11:18,19).

What rectitude is this which has a sure reward and tends to life? Certainly, it isn’t mere acts of good moral and manners. The target isn’t the welfare of the body and soul. This ought to be the outcome of something much bigger.

One of the mistakes that we make is to try to help people only based on their physical needs. This certainly will yield deceitful wage.

We need to figure out that, every happening is an opportunity that the Creator is bestowing us to manifest the true eternal life. We can’t give ears to the appeals of the people because, most of the times, people don’t figure out what they really need.

See Mary Magdalene’s example. She thought that her consolation would be to find the dead body of Jesus (John 20:15). Unfortunately, many people until today try to get their problems solved seeking a dead Jesus.

See the example of the Samaritan woman:

• “Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.” (Joh 4:13-15).

She, as many people, thought that the problem is to have to work. Nonetheless, her great problem was the lack of love. When the true love of Jesus fill our heart, every defiance seems small, every yoke become easy and every burden becomes light (Mt 11:28-30).

Don’t take on the problems that circumvent you as yours, nor keep your expectances alive. Recall what the Creator said:

• “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring out and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but *it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do*.” (Isa 55:10,11).

Leave the aftermaths in Jesus’ hands. Certainly, He will do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us (Eph 3:20).

So, have a brilliant day hearing Jesus’ voice so that you can be able to assist people in what they really need to have experience with the Christ’s righteousness. Don’t look on consoling with empty words (that is to say, promising things that you don’t know if will take place). The true solace of the Creator doesn’t consist only on sorting out the problems, but in being more than conqueror (Rom 8:37) in Christ, even amid the pains and trials that we need to go through (as it happened with the apostles – Acts 5:40,41; Acts 16:23-25).