#590 Christian Brothers and Sisters – Godly Love

Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

For the previous few devotionals we have been looking at how we as Christians should interact with other Christians; there being fellowship, partnering, encouraging, and sharing one with another.  In fact, how we treat and interact with our fellow Christians truly reflects our true Christian commitment.  God expects us to treat each other with love; however, this is not love we can develop and implement on our own.  It is love that comes from our love of God through the Holy Spirit within our hearts.  It is also the same love with which God has loved us, even to the extent of sacrificing His life that we may have eternal life.  This illustrates the extent our love should be for fellow believers; a love that is strong, active, continual, sharing, and ready to endure hardships for their benefit.  As we fellowship with fellow followers of Christ, let us do so with a pure demonstration of Godly love!

If you are having trouble fellowshipping with fellow Christians, allow the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s love through you to others!

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”   (Ephesians 5:1-2 – ESV)

May God Richly Bless You Today

#524 Serving the Lord (I Peter 4:11) – An Encouragement to Believers

Good Day Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

God’s Word is very clear that we as Christians have a responsibility to serve our Lord in ways that will lead others to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord as well as honor and glorify Him.  We, as our Lord’s disciples in this day and time, serve Him through His enabling power, and what we do for Him is done through obedience to His commands with results being left to Him.  In the First Epistle of Peter, Christians are exhorted to be strong, be watchful for persecution, and allow suffering to increase their faith.  In the fourth chapter, verse 10, Peter encourages believers to use their gifts and then, in verse 11, he speaks to how certain of the gifts are to be used, usage that marks how we are to serve the Lord.  In the next few days, let us look at how we can be obedient by faithfully serving Him through following His Word.

Are you being obedient to the mandates of Scripture to faithfully serve the Lord?

“If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:  that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.  Amen.”  (I Peter 4:11)

May God Richly Bless You Today