Do More Than 'Do No Harm'.

'Do no harm'. Have you seen those bumper stickers?  There are few phrases that raise the hackles of my disdain more than that phrase.

I know it wasn't intended that way. I know that it has its roots in the Hippocratic Oath—the principle that doctors shouldn't make their patients worse. 

The thought still rankles me. It rankles me because it's not enough for us just to not make things worse, we Must be intent on making things better. 

The world is broken. Everyone knows that. So it's not enough just to leave it no more broken than when we found it. We must be intentional in working to improve our families and our communities. 

Even more—People are broken. They're all around you.  It's not enough just to not hurt them any further.  You must be intentional in speaking words of love and courage, of engaging in actions of kindness and strength toward all the people whom God brings your way. 

Look for situations and lives around you where you can be the hands and feet and mouth of Jesus.  Look for where your intention can make the difference between surviving and thriving in the life of someone else. 

Focus Scripture:  ‘Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.  Ephesians 4:15-16