Tuesday, December 31 ~ Do not withhold good . . . if it is within your power to help.​—Prov. 3:27.

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Tuesday, December 31

Do not withhold good . . . if it is within your power to help.—Prov. 3:27.

 

“The love of God” compels us to show love to one another, especially in dire situations. (1 John 3:17, 18) When famine threatened Judean Christians in the first century, the congregation organized help for them. (Acts 11:28, 29) The apostles Paul and Peter also exhorted Christians to be hospitable to one another. (Rom. 12:13; 1 Pet. 4:9) If Christians are to welcome visiting brothers, how much more should they welcome fellow believers whose lives are in danger or who have been persecuted for their faith! Recently, thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses had to flee conflict and persecution in eastern Ukraine. Tragically, some were killed. But most of them were taken in by their spiritual brothers elsewhere in Ukraine and in Russia. In both countries, they remain politically neutral, being “no part of the world,” and continue zealously “declaring the good news of the word.”—John 15:19; Acts 8:4. w17.05 4 ¶6-7

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It was a heart warming video that showed the help given to the brothers in various parts of the world and how some waited at the Kingdom Hall having faith that if help came it would be the place to be and proved so.

 

Even in Bundaberg not far from us a number of brothers we affected by the large amount of flooding in the Burnett River a few years back and all four congregations immediately set us help depots with food and clothing to help them.

 

A worldly music friend had raised money from DVD sales and rang me to ask if he could help folk involved in the floods.  I mentioned that there were some of my brothers and sisters who needed help and he came up and we were able to get vouchers with the money from The Good Guys [An electrical Store] and delivered them to four families most in need.  

 

As we get closer to the end there may be  number of our brothers and sisters who may need help and we will all have to be truly united in love and get the full meaning of what the words brother and sister really mean.

 

Thank you father for the constant reminders and the kind of father you are.