BIBLE IN A YEAR: Act 24-26
CUP OF COLD WATER
MEMORIZE: "I have shewed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35)
READ: Exodus 2:1-10
God expects us to cater for those He brings our way. According to Matthew 10:42, a cup of cold water offered to others attracts a reward. In a sense, a cup of cold water could be symbolic. Water is something very vital to which almost everyone has access. That means that God expects you to be hospitable to strangers, visitors, first comers and new converts because He has already deposited within you something precious that can benefit them. Serving the water cold refers to the need for extra effort in using what you have for the good of others.
Your cup of cold water could be a warm handshake, encouraging words, efforts at following up a new comer or convert to your church; meeting a financial or material need of someone, standing in the gap for an embattled brother or sister, etc. Dishing out a cup of cold water can bring unquantifiable reward. Besides, you cannot tell the impact it will make on the recipients’ destiny. You might even be fortunate to serve it to a potential child of destiny. According to today's reading, when Pharaoh's daughter saw baby Moses in the basket at river Nile, she assumed he was a motherless baby. She had a cup of cold water to offer him, and she never kept it back. She took him up, named him and raised him in the palace without knowing she was nursing a national deliverer, and one of the most anointed men in history!
There are several children of destiny among those attending your house fellowship, bible study or Sunday school. You can never tell if one of those 'little ones' you are serving a cup of cold water would become the president, a governor or a very influential person tomorrow. Never keep your cup to yourself. As a young convert, we normally attended Bible study on Tuesdays. It was agreed between my wife and I that I should come for Bible study straight from work. One Tuesday, I was so occupied with official assignments that I had to skip lunch. On getting to church, I was very hungry. A brother called me aside and served me food. Up till now, I cannot tell how he knew that I was hungry. Although this incident took place in 1973, yet every time I recall that day, I pray for the brother. At that time, he never knew he was feeding a potential General Overseer. Dishing out that cup of cold water can meet a need in the life of your brother. Stop holding back. That deed of kindness could change somebody's life. It can affect somebody's destiny. Never joke with it!
ACTIONPOINT
You are the cup. God has already put the water in you. Serve it cold to the needy ones around you.
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Luke 14: 12- 14 says:
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor [thy] rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Selfless – That’s what today’s devotional is asking us to be. How many of us are motivated to help others without a second thought as to what we will get in return? Sadly, it’s a handful and doesn’t help that we live in a society where being selfish is wholly embraced. Suddenly sowing ONLY where there is an assurance of gaining something in return, is considered Smart thinking. The Man who feed GO in 1973 did not know who he was sowing into…he did it out of the goodness of his heart and 35 yrs later, he is still reaping his reward in spades…just incredible.
the thing that popped in my mind was that what daddy GO said.....he said he still prays for the man that gave in food long time ago till today...and the thing that came to my mind was...he might be praying to GOD that GOD should surport that man till the end that he will never fall and miss heaven......juss imagine that...thats gonna tell u what we are dealing with.
GOD please, help us all to understand this, and take the steps we need to take...in JESUS NAME...THANK YOU FATHER.
TO GOD B ALL THE GLORY!
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