“NOT CELEBRATED, NOT HIGHLIGHTED, NOT RECOGNIZED”

“When you do something for someone else, don’t call attention to yourself.  You’ve seen them in action, I’m sure— ‘playactors’ I call them—treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds.  They get applause, true, but that’s all they get.  When you help someone out, don’t think about how...

GIVING FLOWERS TO SOMEONE WHILE THEY ARE STILL LIVING

“My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given.  You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him.  You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well-constructed upon him.  You know your way around the faith.  Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into...

DON’T BE LEAVING NO TIP!

“O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.” (Psalm 107:1 KJV) Today’s meditation finds it’s roots in my older brother’s weekly broadcast where he rereferred to how athletes thump their chest and make other kinds of self-praising motions after scoring or completing a great play, either on offense or defense.  And then, he points out that after the...