ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

 

A popular saying that goes like this, "One good turn deserves another". This means that it is good to repay someone that has done you good with good. All human beings need one another, and this makes the world a better place to live in. 

In the bible, Rahab the prostitute helped the two spies sent by Joshua and when the time was right, both she and her family were spared from the calamity that befell the city of Jericho. No matter the situation we are, there is always someone out there that needs our help, and this should be reciprocated. 

David was helped by Abigail when he was hungry, and her husband Nabal had insulted him and refused to help him. David repaid her by marrying her after the death of her husband Nabal. Even when he was about to die, he told his son Solomon to repay the sons of Barzillai of Gilead, who had helped him when he fled from Absalom his son. He also helped Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son because of what his friend Jonathan had done for him when he was alive. He gave him Saul's inheritance, permitted him to live in the palace at Jerusalem and allowed him to eat at his table. 

Proverbs 3:17 says that if you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.

Always strive hard to repay good with good. By doing this, God will bless you and good will never leave your house. It is a way to thank the person who have helped you and this can make the person help you again when you ask for help.

GOD IS OUR HOME

 

A home is where we rest and put all our belongings in. All human beings were created by God in His own image and likeness. We all should submit to Him and recognize Him in all we do. At the end of our lives, we are going to answer to Him. We should feel free with Him and open our hearts to Him to come in and take His place. God is our home, and we need to rest in Him.

Satan tries His best to take us away from God, but we should always remember that God is our home, no matter what. The place where our souls find true joy, peace, contentment and happiness.

In John Chapter 14 verse 6, Jesus Christ said to His disciples, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me". This means that if we want to seek God's face and make heaven, we should go through Jesus, His Son. God is our final resting place and there is no fear with Him. Despite all our challenges in life, we must always seek rest in God and He will comfort us from all our troubles. In Matthew 11 vs 28 - 30, Jesus Christ encourages us to come unto Him, with all our troubles and problems and He will give us rest.

There is no rest outside of God and all Satan gives are troubles. Submission to God is a major thing which everybody must do, and this will keep us safe and happy. Acknowledging His place in our lives will keep a place for us in heaven and our lives on earth will be protected by Him. 

A TIME FOR EVERYTHING

There is a time for everything under the sun. In Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, it is said that there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time for silence and a time to talk. At the right time, God perfects everything.

When God chose David as King of Israel, David did not become king immediately, he waited for years to assume that position. He was anointed as a teen, but he waited till he was thirty years old before he became king of Israel. He was afraid that Saul would kill him, so he ran and hid himself. He passed through a lot of challenges before he finally took what God had kept for him. 

When God made a promise to Abraham to make him a father of many nations, Abraham had to wait for twenty-five years to get Isaac for the promise to be fulfilled. He even had a son named Ishmael from Hagar his wife's maid, but that was not the promised son. God eventually brought Isaac through Sarah at the right time, which eventually fulfilled the promise and today, there is Israel.

Every pregnancy lasts for months before the baby is born, mostly nine months. If a woman tries to push out a baby before the right time, this may lead to a miscarriage and the whole pregnancy will be futile. 

If we rush a promise God made to us, we'll ruin it and that means we're trying to play God. we should have patience to wait for God's promise to happen at the time He chooses.