So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
In is during traumatic times that our words witnessing to our faith in God are tested by our actions....
....our willingness to reach out to those in need of our practical assistance....
Our Father will ask us to intervene, to become His outreach into the lives of those, who by apparent chance enter our orbit.
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ― William Wordsworth
There will be moments in our life when our faithfulness is tested to its limits, when we make the effort to perform deeds revealing our sacrifice serving Our Father's invitation to do unto others, as we would want them to do unto us.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation,
but deeds can be done only for God.
~Leo Tolstoy
During the ongoing worldwide pandemic a knock on our neighbour's door offering assistance whether in shopping for groceries, or merely leaving ones telephone number inviting our neighbour to call us should need arise is a deed that registers within Our Father's hearing.
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. ~Leo Tolstoy
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