Day 148- 1 Samuel 26-28; Titus 3

"Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful."

We see this in our reading from Titus 3, specifically, but it is also implicit in Samuel.  These few words are repeated in so many variations throughout the Bible and are at the core of what we should practice.  If we fill ourselves with doing the things God tells us to, then evil has no ability to conquer us.  So, if you are sitting idle, you are not doing what God has told you and that leaves room for evil.  You know, just as God uses us, so does evil use good people to accomplish its goals.  On this line, Henry writes,

It is not enough that they be harmless, but they must be profitable, doing good, as well as eschewing evil.—"Let ours set up and maintain some honest labour and employment, to provide for themselves and their families, that they be not unprofitable burdens on the earth;’’ so some understand it. Let them not think that Christianity gives them a writ of ease; no, it lays an obligation upon them to seek some honest work and calling, and therein to abide with God. This is of good report, will credit religion and be good to mankind; they will not be unprofitable members of the body, not burdensome and chargeable to others, but enabled to be helpful to those in want. To maintain good works for necessary uses; not living like drones on the labours of others, but themselves fruitful to the common benefit.