April 25-May 1 Our Christian Life And Ministry (Midweek) Meeting Answers: Spiritual Gems

April 25-May 1 Our Christian Life And Ministry (Midweek) Meeting Answers: Spiritual Gems 

April 25-May 1 Our Christian Life And Ministry (Midweek) Meeting Answers: Spiritual Gems

It's been a week. We have our different battles in life but with God Jehovah's help, we succeed.

Have you acted or blurt out some words that you regret later? This is the focus of this week's meeting. Impulse! Proverbs 15:28 encourages us to take time to meditate before doing or speaking anything. It is not always easy. Yes, sometimes due to the heat of a certain situation, we may forget to respond calmly. 

So, whatever we do, in case we are shopping, or dealing with miscommunication, we must not act in impulse! We should collect our thoughts first and ask Jehovah for wisdom.

For this week's Bible reading, here are some good points that I've found:

• 1 Samuel 25:3. This verse teaches us how to live by our name. Nabal's parents give him such a name at birth, or was it an epithet that stuck to him later? In either case, he lived up to his name. Nabal was “harsh and bad in his practices.” We want to have a good reputation so we need to be wise about how we live and act.
• 1 Samuel 25:17. Do we listen? In a way, we have already seen Abigail take the first step toward righting this terrible wrong. Unlike her husband, Nabal, she proved willing to listen. Tragically, Nabal’s view of his own importance rendered him unwilling to listen. Such arrogance is all too common even to this day. But the young man knew Abigail to be different, which is no doubt why he approached her with this problem. So we should listen especially to Jehovah!
• 1 Samuel 26:23. Sometimes, even when we put forth an earnest effort to express loving-kindness to others, we meet with an unappreciative response. But we ought to realize that there is someone who sees and appreciates what we do, and that is Jehovah. David, the son of Jesse, was one who realized this. Life was made hard for him by King Saul of Israel, who, though he was David’s father-in-law, sought to break up David’s home, finally married off David’s wife Michal to another man, and repeatedly tried to kill David himself. How many people have undergone experiences that are that severe? Yet David repeatedly acted with loving-kindness toward the king. And, though David expected no appreciation from the king, he said: “Jehovah it is who will repay to each one his own righteousness and his own faithfulness.” (1 Sam. 26:23) Yes, Jehovah sees to it that the kindnesses of his servants do not go unrewarded.​

There are still many good points in this week's reading. May we put those words in heart! Stay safe everyone!

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