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One Good Thing Every Day: Be Imitators

Ephesians 5:1-2 NASB

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

One Good Thing Every Day: I Shall Walk

Psalm 116:9 NASB

I shall walk before the Lord

In the land of the living.

One Good Thing Every Day: More to Come

Romans 5:3-4 MSG

There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!

One Good Thing Every Day: Delight in Work

Ecclesiastes 2:10 MSG

I sucked the marrow of pleasure out of every task—my reward to myself for a hard day’s work!

One Good Thing Every Day: Whatever

Colossians 3:17 MSG

Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.

One Good Thing Every Day: Cast All Anxiety

1 Peter 5:6-7 NIV

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

One Good Thing Every Day: The Same Mindset

Philippians 2:5-8 NIV

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,

    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

rather, he made himself nothing

    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,

    being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man,

    he humbled himself

    by becoming obedient to death—

        even death on a cross!

One Good Thing Every Day: Perseverance

James 1:12 NIV

 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

One Good Thing Every Day: God’s Handiwork

Ephesians 2:10 NIV

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

One Good Thing Every Day: Different Ways

1 Corinthians 12:4-7 PHILLIPS

Men have different gifts, but it is the same Spirit who gives them. There are different ways of serving God, but it is the same Lord who is served. God works through different men in different ways, but it is the same God who achieves his purposes through them all. Each man is given his gift by the Spirit that he may make the most of it.