Comments on: Today’s devotional: the real reason we do good deeds /blog/index.php/2010/03/25/todays-devotional-the-real-reason-we-do-good-deeds/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Pastor Howard Gunter /blog/index.php/2010/03/25/todays-devotional-the-real-reason-we-do-good-deeds/comment-page-1/#comment-40746 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:07:35 +0000 /blog/?p=4151#comment-40746 I doubt that there are very many who don’t secretly wish or hope to be “caught” doing something good, even sacrificially good. If being “caught” in some way can be used as a testimony of God’s goodness through us, that is in itself a good thing. But as stated in the devotion, it is our true motive that is at issue. If the motive is to do good for the sake of goodness, we are on target for God. Otherwise we just might be serving an alternative god.

]]> By: bible sweepstakes /blog/index.php/2010/03/25/todays-devotional-the-real-reason-we-do-good-deeds/comment-page-1/#comment-40649 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:59:31 +0000 /blog/?p=4151#comment-40649 “Goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing others to Him, it is not the right kind of holiness; it is only an influence which awakens undue emotions and evil desires in people and diverts them from heading in the right direction.”

This statement may seem to be tricky but it’s actually true. We do things in the Glory of God. So, if we do good or must do good, it is because we want others to be closer to Him in order to glorify Him.

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