How are you investing?
At the beginning of 2017, my prayer group (which consists of about 12-13 girls) decided we wanted to choose a person and throughout the year purposefully encourage them in anyway we could. We decided to choose a girl within the prayer group because we already had 12 girls there who can all use encouragement. I absolutely loved the idea, and to be honest, I'm loving someone purposely encouraging me too.
I was dwelling earlier on some trying things that have been going on lately in my personal life. There have been times that I wished for someone to come along and encourage me. A lot of times there would be someone who needed encouraging instead, and I may think that I was tired of encouraging, I was the one who needed it. Ever felt that way yourself?
In life we have so many issues that arise and at times we can even feel like we can't go on. Sometimes we have a bad day and it just drains our energy, we can get caught up in a pity party and forget that its just a bad day, not a bad life.
I can get so wrapped up in my own issues, my own problems, my own little trials that I become focused on myself. My life becomes about "me, me, me". I start to throw a pity party for poor little me who's life isn't going exactly to plan. Those times when I wished for someone to encourage me, or when I didn't want to encourage someone else because I was the one who "needed" it, well perhaps those were the times that the Lord was trying to tell me that I needed to get over myself, and invest in the lives of others.
How are you investing? Are you always worried about how you feel, what you want, etc? Do you ever take the time to actually invest in others? Do you ask "How are you?" and then actually listen to what people say?
Also, when you do ask people about their lives is it from genuine care for that person or just for the gossip they might give you?
Take this as a challenge to invest in the lives of others today. Take a week and do a random act of kindness for someone else, every single day. Bless someone else!
I was dwelling earlier on some trying things that have been going on lately in my personal life. There have been times that I wished for someone to come along and encourage me. A lot of times there would be someone who needed encouraging instead, and I may think that I was tired of encouraging, I was the one who needed it. Ever felt that way yourself?
In life we have so many issues that arise and at times we can even feel like we can't go on. Sometimes we have a bad day and it just drains our energy, we can get caught up in a pity party and forget that its just a bad day, not a bad life.
I can get so wrapped up in my own issues, my own problems, my own little trials that I become focused on myself. My life becomes about "me, me, me". I start to throw a pity party for poor little me who's life isn't going exactly to plan. Those times when I wished for someone to encourage me, or when I didn't want to encourage someone else because I was the one who "needed" it, well perhaps those were the times that the Lord was trying to tell me that I needed to get over myself, and invest in the lives of others.
How are you investing? Are you always worried about how you feel, what you want, etc? Do you ever take the time to actually invest in others? Do you ask "How are you?" and then actually listen to what people say?
Also, when you do ask people about their lives is it from genuine care for that person or just for the gossip they might give you?
Take this as a challenge to invest in the lives of others today. Take a week and do a random act of kindness for someone else, every single day. Bless someone else!
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