Posted on 02/12/2016 1:01:24 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
True love is a sacrifice. Sometimes you have to give up winning so others can win. Making a sacrifice allows your brother to get ahead. When you let others to get ahead, God will ensure there is someone there to help you get ahead. Doing good works unselfishly, is infectious and dispels unfounded fear.
Today I was listening to a story by a Russian priest who told us how contagious good works are. How do you do good works? See how this young man not only changed the lives of several families by serving them, but also infecting others to do good works.
I am sharing this good example because the Psalm 105:2 admonishes us to to sing praise to God and “tell of all his wonderful acts.â€
Desire To Do Good Works
Once a young man approached to this priest before the worship service and asked if he could make a brief announcement to the congregation at the end of the Liturgy. Knowing the parishioner and learning the matter, the priest allowed him to make the announcement.
At the end of the liturgy the young man told the parishioners that he is a mathematician. Continue reading here.
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Posting on FreeRepublic is a sacrifice. Sometimes you have to give up pimping your blog so that FReepers can read what you have written. Posting in full allows your brother FReepers to get a real sense of what you've written. When you let others read your work *in full* God will ensure that some FReepers will give you hits to help you get ahead. Posting your work unselfishly is infectious and dispels the notion that you're only here for the free ride.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
Matthew 13:50
50 and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
You tell ‘em Pam.
Wham.
I think I’d rather see the singing parakeet.
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