Thursday’s Thought

      A Mid-Week Inspirational Message

    © 2003-2009 Ron Adams

INTENTIONS

Good intentions that never produce action are worthless.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

One cannot build a reputation on intentions; it is built on actions.

When actions are not the same as intentions,

the problem can be traced to character!

 It's inconsistent to judge yourself by your best intentions

and others by their worst actions.

Judged by Deeds, Not Intentions

The Lord will judge us according to our actions, not our intentions.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:10

What matters is, not what you would do for the Lord if you had riches, but what you are doing with what you have now.

A Great Example

Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia, that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave

of their own accord, begging us with much urging for the

favor of participation in the support of the saints, and this,

not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves

to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

2 Corinthians 8:1-5

Quotations from NASB