😇A Nice Man☺️🤝

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting others up.

In verse 12 the Apostle Paul writes telling the 

Thessalonian believers know those that labor among them. In verse 13 Paul says that they were to think very highly of those who are laboring among them, Paul says in verse 14 that those that have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ are to encourage each other. Those who are strong in the Lord are to comfort and support those that are weaker as well as be patient toward all men. Then Paul tells them to not get so upset that you lower yourselves to the level of rendering evil for evil.

Now Paul goes on naming qualities we all should support. 

1 Thessalonians 5:16 (KJV) Rejoice evermore. Are we?

1 Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV) Pray without ceasing. Do we?

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV) In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Are we giving thanks? 

1 Thessalonians 5:19 (KJV) Quench not the Spirit. Do we?

1 Thessalonians 5:20 (KJV) Despise not prophesyings. Do we despise what God has revealed?

1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Just test the things of and see.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV) Abstain from all appearance of evil. Are we?

Paul covered a bunch of things that if we were to learn to do them, oh what a better world this would be.  In Matthew chapter 5 just above verse 3 there is a caption that reads “The Beatitudes” the 

be- attitudes, does this mean that these are the attitudes that need to be? From verse 3 to verse 11 each one of those verses start off with “Blessed are that word blessed carries the meaning of happy. What would it be like in this world if we just changed our attitude on somethings? Have you ever gotten a phone call and the caller is hiding behind the premise of wanting to help you? Then they began asking questions, when you fail to answer a question that doesn’t fit in with their program they hang up on you. Yeah, no I’m sorry you don’t qualify or any other reason they just hang up. Remember that those who care don’t just cut you off, that is being rude and that is an attitude that needs to be changed, it’s just not acceptable. I was in a restaurant with my wife not long ago and we met a very nice man. He greeted us and said a few kind words. Then he told us that the people who work here in this restaurant are wonderful people. Then he spoke to another man then to another man and woman. I noticed it didn’t matter what they looked like, how they were dressed he spoke to everyone in the restaurant. When he left he said this to everyone that he passed by “have a good day” as he smiled. After he was gone my wife said to me “what a nice man.” I noticed something else about that nice man. He didn't say much about himself and you know what? I don’t know if anyone asked him his name. It is sad to say, you don’t see people like that everyday. Why did I write about that nice man? Well he was doing exactly what the Apostle Paul was writing about. We need to understand that we don’t always have to know what others are going through to comfort and encourage them. We can do that by being, as my wife said, a nice man. As I tell my special needs grandson “everybody needs a Pat on the back.