Letting Our Lights Shine Before Others, Part 2 (TMF:2220)

Friday, November 10, 2023
Peace to Live By: Letting Our Lights Shine Before Others, Part 2 (TMF:2220) - Daniel Litton
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       The truth is, is that helping others, letting others see we are not only about ourselves (in effect, letting our lights shine), this typically ends up benefiting us more than it does the person we are actually helping. It benefits us because we get to see that the help we provided eased the burden of our friend. We get to give a little and thus make someone else’s life a little bit easier. Truth be told, it just makes us happier whenever the task is completed, and we know that it makes the person we are helping happy. We know too that it’s not just how we feel that is of benefit to us. Jesus has told us over and over again that doing such things gains us rewards for the future. Since God is keeping track of all the good things we do, he is building up ideas of more and more good things to give us when we enter the next realm of existence. That being the case, then, it only makes sense that the more we give, the more we will receive. In this cost-benefit analysis, we end up getting more benefit versus the actual cost to us.