I love to encourage. But, it's totally selfish! I can't even contain myself when I think about the smile that someone gonna get when they see that little note that I put on their car or how they are gonna look when they read that email! There is an immense amount of joy in looking at others through God's eyes! It's completely selfish! However, as someone who feeds on giving it, I also feed off of it, so I understand just how much it really is needed. Speaking life into someone's day is exhilarating. God is lavishing His love on us all the time, but the world is constantly putting us down. It tells us that we aren't good enough, or aren't smart enough, or don't have enough money, or aren't the sexiest thing on two feet, or aren't worth anything. In fact, the Bible even says that the power of life and death are held in the tongue and that the tongue is the hardest thing to control! We crave encouragement in our world today and the Devil knows it! So, he whispers really soft, so you don't know that it's him talking to you and putting you down. BUT, you can make that choice to listen or to rebuke, to accept the lies or to increase your faith! Advance the light! "Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness!" (Heb 3:13)