Knowing that you need to do good deeds every day, and actually doing them are completely different things. You are not a Christian very long, until you learn the importance of doing good deeds for Christ. You want to please Christ so much that performing good deeds for Him is your utmost desire, although you find that doing so in your daily life is a challenge.
To do more good deeds in your life requires that you be attentive to daily opportunities to do so. Benjamin Franklin asked himself each day: “What good thing can I do today?” Now, that is a very good question to ponder at the beginning of each day. Without making a conscious effort to do good deeds, they will never be done. Good deeds occur when a conscious effort to do them occurs.
That is all good. You need to make a mental effort to do good deeds daily. But why? Why should you be so concerned about doing good deeds? The Holy Bible sheds some light on this: “to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life” (Romans 2:7; NASV). Doing good deeds is not to be something you do every once in a while. The verse says they are to be done “by perseverance.” Conscious effort must occur to do good works on a consistent basis. Doing so has its rich rewards. And what are those rewards? You receive “glory and honor and immortality.” And those rewards are to last as you receive “eternal life.”
Chances are that you are living a life full of good works. If not, start doing so today. Christ is your example. His life was a life of good deeds, doing the Father’s will while on earth. Sometimes to do more good works just takes a gentle reminder to do so. Start afresh today!
