He went about doing good.

My husband very recently left a career of 30 years as a Commodities Trader.  We have been married for 24 of those years!  He is a loyal friend to many and being in that industry fostered some interesting relationships.  When he became a believer and follower of Jesus (out of a Buddhist background!!) he chose to really learn about the Lord and follow in His footsteps.  For the last 10 years he and some other believers would hold bible study in the offices that surround the "Pit" of the trading floors.  Many men would come to hear about the faithfulness of the God of Israel who sent the Messiah who loves the sinner, tax collector, and prostitute. Good news for all.

Though he still goes down to the "Pit" as a consultant from time to time and for a weekly bible study, more often he goes about counseling, encouraging, and teaching the Word of God to those in his path. I have witnessed a beautiful exchange of spirit in this man. The apostle Paul said*, "We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me."  It is a privilege to go forward in our new season of life together...walking by faith and not by sight.

 *Colossians 1:28-29

"He went about doing good.”  Acts 10:38

"Few words, but yet an exquisite miniature of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are not many touches, but they are the strokes of a master’s pencil. Of the Savior and only of the Savior is it true in the fullest, broadest, and most unqualified sense. “He went about doing good.” From this description it is evident that he did good personally. The evangelists constantly tell us that He touched the leper with his own finger, that He anointed the eyes of the blind, and that in cases where He was asked to speak the word only at a distance, He did not usually comply, but went himself to the sick bed, and there personally wrought the cure.

 A lesson to us, if we would do good, to do it ourselves. Give alms with your own hand; a kind look, or word, will enhance the value of the gift. Speak to a friend about his soul; your loving appeal will have more influence than a whole library of tracts. Our Lord’s mode of doing good sets forth his incessant activity! He did not only the good which came close to hand, but he “went about” on his errands of mercy. Throughout the whole land of Judea there was scarcely a village or a hamlet which was not gladdened by the sight of him. How this reproves the creeping, loitering manner, in which many professors serve the Lord. 

Let us gird up the loins of our mind, and be not weary in well doing. Does not the text imply that Jesus Christ went out of his way to do good? “He went about doing good.” He was never deterred by danger or difficulty. He sought out the objects of his gracious intentions. So must we. If old plans will not answer, we must try new ones, for fresh experiments sometimes achieve more than regular methods. Christ’s perseverance, and the unity of his purpose, are also hinted at, and the practical application of the subject may be summed up in the words, “leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps.”  Charles Spurgeon 'July 28th'