BE AN ENCOURAGER
Proverbs 12:25
An anxious metformin weight metformin er 500mg side effects loss clomid heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Our world is a place where worrying has been a daily habit. People just love to worry! They worry about work, food, money, relationships, career, and much more. My question is what does worrying do to people? The answer, it only does two things – it wastes our time and depletes our energy. It does absolutely nothing good to us. The writer of Proverbs points it out perfectly in chapter 12 verse 25 that a person who is anxious is a person who is very discouraged.
I have noticed that people who are always anxious doesn’t have that much friends and are not very productive at work. Just imagine you have a friend whose name is Warry. Every time you meet, he will voice out his worries about work and about his love life. You seldom see him smile and your other friends don’t like to be with him. At work, he is always stressed out and he doesn’t accomplish much. Do you know of such people? I bet you have someone in mind who acts like that (maybe not exactly).
The second part of Proverbs 16:25 states a solution to the problem that anxious people have. The solution – a kind word. God called us to love one another and one way to do that is to say a kind word to those who are discouraged. Even if we don’t like to be with them at times, God wants us to endure and do our best to encourage those who are always anxious.
Saying kind or encouraging words to someone who is anxious helps the person shift away from the worries of life and shifts to a thought that brings hope. It may also lead an anxious person to let go of the worries of life and lay it down at the feet of Jesus. The point is, we as Christians have an important role to play and that is to be an encourager. People like Warry need people like Barnabas who was the number one encourager of the Apostle Paul. If you grew up listening to your Sunday School teacher, you may have heard the vastness of the ministry of the Apostle Paul and the number of churches he was able to plant in different cities. But all of his accomplishments wouldn’t be possible if a Barnabas didn’t stop and might have said to him, during one of the most discouraging moments of Paul, “I believe in you. You’ll do great things for the Lord.”
Be an encourager, because you’ll never know how far your kind word will go in the Kingdom of God.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, please help me to be an encourager to someone today. Help me to guard my thoughts and my words, that I will seek to build others up, not to tear them down.
By: Marty Ocaya
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