‘You Did It’

‘You Did It’

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matthew 25:40

Christ was a worker.  Because He ‘came not to be served, but to serve,’ He did good on His way to doing good.  How often do we read of Christ performing some miracle on His way to work another wonder.  What we learn from His behavior is that opportunities to do good unto others abound in our everyday life.  Because we have already considered that we may encounter ‘the least of these My brethren’ at any moment, we must also realize that the good we do them may be small to us, but great to them.  If we read the context of our text, the people whom Christ commends for their kindness and compassion ask, ‘when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?  When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?  Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?’  Those doers of good were not cognitively aware that they were actually ministering to Christ Himself, as He views it.  They were merely doing good to the person whom they encountered who had the need that they could meet.  This evidences their Christlikeness as they ‘went about doing good.’  Their actions were the evidence of their being His ‘sheep.’  We do not know who we will encounter today, or what good we may do them, or when the opportunity may come to hand.  As we have contemplated Christ, so let us imitate Him wherever we go.  Throughout the course of today let us, like Christ, go about doing good.  It is His way, and therefore becomes our way.

Our Good and Kind Savior,
we rejoice that You set before us opportunities to do good unto all,
especially to those who are of the household of faith.
We praise You that You enable us to imitate Christ in this doing good to others.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning