Post 1 A Promise of Acceptance

Post 1 A Promise of Acceptance

Mark 9:41

41 If anyone gives you even a cup of water because you belong to the Messiah, I tell you the truth, that person will surely be rewarded.

Have you ever been in a position where you were literally desperate for water or something to drink and you finally got to a place where you had one. Didn't it feel so good to get that water or drink into you?  I don't live in a a place where I lack things to drink. Five days a week I am home and I have cordial, coffee and milk to drink at any time and so I don't lack.

But Jesus' disciples were taught by Jesus to go from village to village with no money in their purses, no change of clothes and no way of surviving really unless a person of faith ministered food and drink to them. They were sent to the Jewish faith to preach about a Messiah that was promised and they were to live literally by the faith that they professed. So in that day people were needed to feed them, give them things to eat, and to give them a place to sleep out of the weather. When people even just drew water for them because they accepted them and their message, and gave them a drink, Jesus said that this person would be rewarded.

We may be quick to forget when people do us a good turn. We might not even be thankful. Sometimes I forget my manners and do not say thanks when I should. Yet though we might not be thankful or we may forget the things that people do for us, one person that does not forget the littlest deed is the Almighty God of Heaven. God may forgive our sins and throw them into the sea of forgetfulness, but God never forgets one deed we do for our fellow man no matter how small and insignificant it may seem to us. God is a rewarder of all that do good and especially a rewarder of people who do good deeds for His people of the Christian faith.

These days I don't often carry cash. I do most of my purchases on my Visa Debit card. I do this because once every two weeks when I get paid my pension, I pay my bills, do my shopping, and  then live pretty much without spending anymore till the next pension. The only thing I really buy in that two weeks is milk. I go to church on a Friday night and after church I go out to Burger King with a good woman friend of mine called Claire. Each week, she buys me anything I would like to eat after church and anything I would like to drink. She has a really good attitude to money. She says all her money is God's and that she is simply spending Gods money on me. Jesus was speaking of her in this promise above, that one day she would get rewarded for all she buys for me, whether that be on earth or in Heaven when we pass on.

For years I carried cash and for over ten years I gave a lot of my spare money to the homeless and poor. God sees all this and I personally believe that all of this money one day will be stored up as treasure in Heaven. For any of you who read my books, you will hear me speak about the homeless allot. I love the homeless. These days when I carry no cash, I still say hello to them and when they ask me for spare change, they are thankful when I say I don't have any money on me. The homeless like to be looked in the eye and treated with dignity, the same dignity that you would treat a person in a suit. Last week Claire and I saw a homeless man going through bins and she took him out twenty dollars so that he could buy something rather then eat peoples discarded food.

I hear the words of Jesus ring out, "What you do for the least of my brethren you did unto me." Would we honestly let the Lord Jesus dig through a bin for food and not take him out any money?

I have a very big heart. Three months ago a good friend of mine on Facebook wrote to me and asked if I could help her and her family as floods had ravished their home in Manilla. At the time I had about $1000 that I had to spend on getting a book published so I told her I would pray for others to help her. Today as had published that book and finished my commitments to it, the Holy Spirit prompted me to put $100 US in my budget for my next pension to give to this lady. I wrote to her on Facebook and told her that she could count on me for $100 in two weeks when I get my next pension. She was overcome with joy and happiness as $100 US means a lot to a person in the Philippines.

If you are loved so much that God's Son promises to bless any person that blesses you with a drink of water, don't you think you also could bless others out of your abundance?

Prayer 

Father,

Remind me to be thankful for all the people that feed me. Remind me to thank my pastors for feeding me the Word. Let me be thankful for all that bless me in any way and I ask that you bless those people who bless me according to this promise. Help me to not to pass the needy but to acknowledge them, and even if I have no money to give to at least treat them with honour and respect. Help me to be a better giver and please bless me as I bless others according to your Word I ask. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.