MANY SUFFER FROM A CRUSHED SPIRIT

             The human spirit can endure in sickness,

                        but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 18.14 

HERE IS OUR ANSWER. 

DO AND SAY

SOMETHING

GOOD AND RIGHT.

The Kingdom of God is …

righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

                                                       Romans 14.7

Do and say something good and right to and for anyone you meet and especially to all your relationships.

If you do or say anything good in Jesus Name, in obedience to the will and way of God, because He wants you to, you will experience instant peace and joy.

The primary elements of love, for even an enemy, 

     is saying and doing something good.

  I say, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”                                                             Luke .27-28

If doing and saying (blessing) something good for enemies is difficult, how much more should we work at good for all others?

A moment’s reflection (“waiting on the Lord”) will immediately

give us something we can say or do.

Reading Proverbs looking for something right and good for others for God will give us more and more significant things we can say and do.

Proverbs will give us good to say and do and bad to eliminate at the same time.

        Doing and saying right and good is always helpful to you and the recipient of your encouraging, comforting words and actions.

Now:

Do not be afraid (of what might happen).

Do not be discouraged (by what has happened).

Meditate in the Law of the Lord day and night,

So that you will be prosperous and successful.

Have not I commanded you?

Be strong and courageous.

Do not be afraid.

Do not be discouraged,

for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

                                                                        Joshua 1.7-9

                                                                                                                                                           

Past events and future possibilities, singly or cumulatively, crush our spirit and we live under the condemnation of these memories and fears for years.

Negative past events and the memories, and the thoughts that torment us in the present moment, as the basis for all the fears we have about what might happen next and in the future.

If I have suffered in the past and think “suffering” in the present, I will instinctively think and fear suffering and failure in the future.

The past was real, but it is history.

This present moment can be different.

This present moment that we now in which we decide to live by faith in God expressed in doing and saying something good to the next person we see and meet, and the one who comes to our mind for later—

in this moment our discouragement and fear

(Depression?  Anger? Stress?  Tiredness?)

lose their power in and over us.

At this very same moment, peace and joyful anticipation move into our heart, soul, mind, and body, which is what Jesus promised if we choose to Love others.

This is the promised result of obeying "the Great Commandment” right now.

Move and do or say something for another—

right now.

       

Begin to do this daily, one by one, day by day.

Begin doing the one you recognize right now as a new start.

       Write it on a card and review and revise the card daily.

Build up a card file with weekly additions from the “Put On” verses of Colossians 3.12-14 and /or James 3.13-18.