Allowing His Goodness To Be Seen Through Us

Think about the blessings that the Lord gave you during 2014. Consider His love, grace, protection, guidance, and how He delights in blessing His children. Just as He loves us unconditionally and freely does things for us, He wants us to allow His goodness to be seen through us so that people will glorify Him (see Mt 5:16).

Take a little time to reminisce about how you may have impacted someone’s life this year. It really doesn’t matter how great or small the interaction was just recognize the fact that it made a difference in the person’s life. It could have been giving a friendly smile and hello to a lonely co-worker. You could have bought groceries for a family that was struggling financially. Perhaps you prayed on the spot for someone who asked you to pray for them.

It may have taken you out of your comfort zone to pray with someone immediately if you’ve only been used to praying in private but, your stepping out in faith caused another person to be blessed to experience the love and compassion of Christ.

We must be open to the Spirit of the Lord and allow Him to flow through us. As we do this we will quickly find that it is a win win situation. God is blessed by our obedience, the person that we show God’s love to is blessed, and we experience great joy because we realize that God chose us to help carry out His purpose. It echoes in our spirit that if we obey Him once we can do it over and over again.

Reflecting on how God uses us is by no means a reason to boast in what we have done but, rather to give us a closer look at the gifts that He’s given us as well as be grateful that He has chosen us to be a vessels used by Him