Once in I a while we experienced a moment of despair caused by a number of reasons like conflicts in the family, lost of loved ones or could be a business transaction gone bad. However, whatever reasons that may cause our feeling of desperation, a word of encouragement would help. A little encouragement goes a long way.
What the Bible tells about encouragement?
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Cheer each other with these assurances. Tell the mourning ones that when they are called to meet the Lord they will find their own sleeping ones in the glorious company. (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(Hebrews 3:13)
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)
Have you ever heard of somebody complaining about too much encouragement? In fact we wish that someone would encourage us more .
I have few readers who are patrons of my work in Ezine Article (one of whom is my wife) who made a lasting impression on my life when they complimented me on some articles I had written (42 articles are published by Ezine publisher). Many times I have thought of what they said and that their encouraging words were influential in my daring to write articles that talk about marriage relationship. There were other factors of course, but I thank God for these people. Little did they know that what they said was instrumental in bringing married couples to Christ and inspiring them to live holy lives.
I make use of this “tool’’ to encourage my wife as well if she feels like fretting about domestic concerns that she has to do all by herself since I’m thousand miles away from her. As a father, encouraging my children to face their difficulties in dealing with math subject –their waterloo by showing them easy techniques I learned when I was at their age and struggling just like them.
Recently, I read an article about Padre Pio, a Capuchin priest famous for his stigmata that at one time in 1947 when Father Karol Josef Wojtyla, a young Polish priest visited him to make a confession. Padre Pio encourage the young Polish priest to continue with his good work and told him that he would one day ascend to the highest post in the church. That young Polish priest is known today as Pope John Paul II.
How about you, have you encouraged someone lately?
Linkback:
https://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=23475.0
Topic: A Little Encouragement Goes a Long Way (Read 916 times)