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Turningpoint Today: The Ripple Effects


 “You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me” Exodus 20:5.

You are part of the entire human race. You are part of the whole. Anything you say or do, positive or negative, has ripple effects. By ripple effect, I mean the prolonged direct or indirect consequences of whatever is said or done. Throw a stone into the river, it causes ripples. Say a word and it causes ripples. Take action, and it causes ripples. Behaviour causes ripples. The effect of the blunder committed by Adam and Eve was not only limited to them or felt by them; it transferred to the succeeding generations of human beings, and was in force till Jesus came to revoke it by his blood. Similarly, the effect of Jonathan’s kind gesture to David lived long after Jonathan had gone. It extended to Mephibosheth, the only surviving son of Jonathan, who was abandoned and forgotten at Lodebar.

One day the spirit of that gesture provoked King David and he said: ‘is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?’ 2 Samuel 9:3.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “EVERYTHING SAID OR DONE HAS RIPPLE EFFECTS”

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