Your Influence.

 Every one of us casts a shadow. There hangs about us a sort of penumbra, a strange, indefinable something we call influence, that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it, and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives, as light from a lamp, as heat from a flame, as perfume from a flower. Every good life leaves in this world a twofold ministry: that of the things it does directly to bless others, and that of the silent influence it exerts, through which others are made better, or inspired to do like good things. If we would make our lives worthy of God and a blessing to the world, we must see to it that nothing we do shall influence others to do evil in the slightest degree.

We should keep watch over our words and deeds not only in their intent and purpose, but also in their possible influence over others.

[J.R. Miller]

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Proverbs 16:24 ... Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Colossians 3:17 ... And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.❤