Pat on the back or kick in the seat of the pants?
Read Hebrews 3:7-19
"But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness" (Hebrews 3:13).
What Does This Scripture Mean for Us?
Which would you rather have, a pat on the back or a kick in the seat of the pants??
I had a job some years ago which I REALLY enjoyed -- I was a newspaper copy editor. I generally had fun with it; I even enjoyed the challenge of the fast-paced, two-deadlines-a-day work. Most of the time.
But I NEVER (well, hardly ever) got a "pat on the back" or good word when I did something well. Yet I almost always heard about it when I messed up.
A few years later, I was working at a similar but more demanding position at a weekly magazine.
I was shocked the second week there when the editor made a point of coming by my cubicle to
ask how things were going for me -- and gave me a totally unexpected, unsolicited pat on the back (literally) for the job I was doing.
The "moral of the story," I guess, would be this: Criticism and discouragement are everywhere, almost always there for us all -- how about going out of your way today to encourage a brother or sister in their faith, for their good work, etc.?
Give someone in your world a pat on the back every day.
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