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We Are Blessed in Helping Others, September 20
The soul of blessing shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be
watered also himself.
Proverbs 11:25
, margin.
There are many to whom life is a painful struggle; they feel their defi-
ciencies, and are miserable and unbelieving; they think they have nothing
for which to be grateful. Kind words, looks of sympathy, expressions of
appreciation, would be to many a struggling and lonely one as the cup
of cold water to a thirsty soul. A word of sympathy, an act of kindness,
would lift burdens that rest heavily upon weary shoulders. And every word
or deed of unselfish kindness is an expression of the love of Christ for lost
humanity.
The merciful “shall obtain mercy.” “The soul of blessing shall be made
fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” There is sweet
peace for the compassionate spirit, a blessed satisfaction in the life of
self-forgetful service for the good of others. The Holy Spirit that abides in
the soul, and is manifest in the life, will soften hard hearts, and awaken
sympathy and tenderness. You will reap that which you sow
The time will come when the earth shall reel to and fro, and shall
be removed like a cottage. But the thoughts, the purposes, the acts of
God’s workers, although now unseen, will appear at the great day of final
retribution and reward. Things now forgotten will then appear as witnesses,
either to approve or to condemn.
Love, courtesy, self-sacrifice,—these are never lost. When God’s
chosen ones are changed from mortality to immortality, their words and
deeds of goodness will be made manifest, and will be preserved through
the eternal ages. No act of unselfish service, however small or simple,
is ever lost. Through the merits of Christ’s imputed righteousness, the
fragrance of such words and deeds is forever preserved
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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 40, 41
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Manuscript 161, 1897
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