Focus: Do Good!

Text: Gal.6:9-10

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."

Mother Teresa left home at the age of 18 and never returned. She spent her whole life living for others and being a blessing to humanity. Her life was an investment in good works. In her poem entitled, Anyway, she said:

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;

It was never between you and them anyway."

Child of God, it is good to be good, and it is good to do good. Being a Christian requires that we do good anyway. Do good anyway. Invest your time, talent and treasure in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Let nothing keep you from being and doing good.

Things may keep cropping up that make us faint or get us discouraged from doing good, but we must always rise above them and keep doing good.

Find opportunity to do good. Open your eyes and your heart for opportunities to do good. Seize every opportunity you see to do good. Doing good is the business of heaven. People experience heaven by the good we do.

There is a due season for reaping the good seeds we sow in people's lives. But mark Paul's words: "IF we faint not." We lose the gains of the good we do by fainting. Don't let it happen to you. Do good and keep doing it. Your due season is coming.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter