NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

Ephesians 4: 29 Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

You’ll have heard the quote “No man is an island” because we all affect one another. We all have people in our lives, whether it’s relatives, work colleagues, neighbours or just acquaintances. They are the people our lives touch regularly or fleetingly throughout our day, and our words, actions and attitudes will affect them.

God gives us the opportunity to build someone up as we brush shoulders with them. Everybody needs a word of encouragement, and we can all testify to when an encouraging word has been spoken over our own lives, how it has helped us to keep going or just made our day.🙂

We recognise it with babies when they fall over when we smilingly help them up and tell them to try again, that they can do it. But actually we’re never too old to be told we can try again, that we can do it.😊 

People go through many difficult experiences which can knock their confidence and they feel put down, or of no account, but our job is to encourage them and build them back up, let them know they are of great value, that they will overcome and get through whatever has hit them. Let them know that they are of great worth, and their worth is not lessened just because of what someone has said or done. 

We can bless people by letting them know we believe in them, and appreciate them, that they have great potential inside them just waiting to come out, and give them our approval. 

Maybe you need to hear all of that today too.🙂 Know this, God loves you deeply and His greatest desire is to bless you and help you to become all that He wants you to be. So put your shoulders back, lift your head up and know God says you are of great worth, of enormous value to Him and us, that He believes in you. He approves you and says with Him you are more than enough. You are blessed and you will overcome whatever is coming against you with God’s help. God bless you.