Where does your ripple stop? Every word that we say in this life affects someone else. Sometimes, someone in our family or nearby hears what we say and it touches them. For good or bad, it has touched their soul and the ripple effect goes on from there. We may never know how far it goes in this life but in the life to come, we will find out what our words did.
If you look at the Gospels and see how Jesus taught His disciples and the things that He did, the ripple effect is evident. The church began with those twelve disciples and the letters that they wrote about Him and what He did. Then they took their experience of Jesus and used His name to heal people and tell them about His Kingdom. They told everyone who would listen about His love for them and that it was the love of God that sent Him to provide a way of salvation through belief in Him. Love is the key and without it, you can’t open the door to eternity.
We live our lives going through so many motions of acceptance and rejection, yet we are also looking for something that sometimes takes years for us to realize what it is. Some of us are given this answer when we are young and some only find it after heartache and pain. Many Christians seem to question whether they have found it or not. Why? Because they look around them and see all of the problems and wonder when will God fix this, will it be fixed in my lifetime or not?
It is not for us to know the time when God will fix the world because He will do it in His time. It is God’s timing that we should look for and be patient in waiting for Him to do His will. As Jesus told His disciples “Do not worry about tomorrow” because worry is practical atheism. You can do nothing about tomorrow because it isn’t here yet. Do God’s will today and seek to do His will today because only God knows tomorrow and what is in it.
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