Doing what is right might mean serving others without getting (or expecting) anything in return. We are called to serve others. 1 Peter 4:10 says, "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others..." It could be as simple as opening a door for someone, or doing a favor, or standing up for someone, whether you know them or not, because it's the right thing to do. You should serve, not to get repaid, but because God tells you to.Doing what is right, might be helping others by giving them what we have. If we see a brother in need and have no pity. 1 John 3:17 says, "If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need, but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?". This should especially translate to thanking people and doing right by them. If someone helps you, whether you asked for help or not, you should thank them, and at least be willing to help them when they need help. If you don't do this, you are just taking from people, not giving, not sharing, and not showing the love of God to people. They may even fight against you because of it.
Doing what is right might mean if your friend messes up, helping them clean it up. Sometimes our friends make mistakes: they may have the wrong attitude, act inappropriately, or doing something just foolish. If we can help them clean up their mess and fix it, we should. This goes with the whole, 'brother in need'. If we see someone in need and we can help, then to show them love would be to help fix it.
We need to ALWAYS do what is right. All junior high students are encouraged to join us tomorrow night. We'll look at 1 Samuel 25 to read a story of 2 people who exemplified doing what is right and 1 who failed. I hope to see you all there.
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