Your Ways, or His?

What do other people see in your life as they look at you? What do they think of your actions?

There is a good verse in Matthew 5:17 which says, “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.” That means your deeds, and the way you treat others- and that means the people you like or dislike, that you know or don’t know. What would they say about you from the little they do see?

There is a very big difference with God in why you do what you do for yourself or someone else. There are lots of people that do nice things for others, but for the wrong reasons. It’s what you do for God and why you do it that makes all the difference. You may fool people with your reasons, but never God.

Only the things that you do should have a cost to you and your motives, and that is that God gets all the benefits. Yes, you will get thanks for your actions most of the time. You’ll receive the rewards or expressions from others, but unless you yourself turn this area over to God, it will have little value in His relationship with you.

You’re to let your light shine to show the spotlight on Jesus that the world would see; not you, but God and His Son. Any other reason to do what you do and how you talk and act toward others- or in your own backyard and behind the closed doors of your house- matters to God, who fully understands why you do what you do and will adjust your future accordingly in eternity because of it.