ONE KEY TO UNLOCK THIS YEAR - DO GOOD

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9). 

Recently, the Holy Spirit dropped something into my heart on the subject of love. He said to me that love is never tired and does not retire. As I pondered on this, the thirteenth chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians came into my mind. Love, when it is genuine, is tirelessly good, painstakingly kind, and infinitely liberal. Of course, we also see all these features illustrated in the way God loves us in spite of us. O Lord, please teach us how to love! 

Is there some good you are capable of doing that would be too much for God? Could there ever be an offering in your hand that would be too big to give to God? Could there be a service you could render that God would be unworthy of? The answers to these questions should be in the negative, particularly if love for God is resident in your heart. God is certainly more than worthy of all the good we could ever do and all the offerings we could ever give. When we love God all the doubts are erased and limits are removed. 

Now let's come to your spouse and your children. Is there something good you cannot do for your wife and children? Could there be a gift that will be too big to give to your wife or to your children? Again, the answers here should be in the negative. Because I love my wife, there is no good I can possibly do that she would be undeserving of. All acts of benevolence are due to my wife. Lady, all acts of kindness are due to your husband. Your spouse and your children deserve all the gift you are able to procure and all the services you have the capacity to render. 

When love is in the equation and it comes to doing good, there should be no retreat and there should be no surrender to the negative emotions of anger, bitterness, hatred, resentment and the like; especially when the good we are talking about is towards God or towards our spouses and children. This is what the Bible means when it says you should not be weary in well doing. Of course we are required to do good unto all men, according to the Scriptures. Thus, if under God we owe all men our acts of kindness, how much more do we owe it to our immediate family and to God. 

Today, by the word of God and by the power that is in the name of Jesus Christ, I come against anything that keeps you from doing good towards God and your family. Whatever makes you think of your spouse as undeserving of your greatest good is nullified today. Whatever makes you withdraw from giving your children the very best of affection is cursed today. May the love of God that triumphs over anger and weaknesses well up afresh in your heart for your spouse and your children. May the Lord also grant that your love for Him shall abound more and more. Receive grace in Jesus Christ's name.