Our encouragement to fellow Christians can be a breath of fresh air...Today's Scripture:
You should not stay away from the church meetings, as some are doing, but you should meet together and encourage each other. Do this even more as you see the day coming.
Hebrews 10:25
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul. Without oxygen, a human would die. With it, he lives. Pure oxygen, though, as you might have experienced in the hospital or another medical situation, is even stronger. Breathing that pure, simple substance can change a weak person into a strong one. You feel vitalized, uplifted, empowered.
Like oxygen, encouragement has the power to strengthen a flagging soul, heal a broken heart, and lift up a fallen outlook. Encouragement can come in many forms. It might be a sincere compliment you give to friend. It might be a note you write to thank a committee member for a task completed. It could be a pep talk you give to boost someone when her spirit is troubled. Or it might be a simple touch, a pat on the shoulder, the offer of a hand to help someone up when they have stumbled.
Encouragement comes in many forms. Encouragement often happens best in the context of fellowship or the gathering of people at church who believe as you do. Spend time with other godly women. Don't let your job and your family and all the other demands in you life isolate you. If something has to go, it's often the time you spend with other men and women in church, in the men's and women's programs, and in small get-togethers.
When you take time to be with others, you find encouragement and help and hope to give to others and to yourself.
Selah people' and friends fellowship that encourages is vital to survival. Get connected. Go to those meetings. Give and receive to and from your brothers and sisters in Christ. You will find yourself lifting up and lifted up as if a cloud of oxygen were pouring into your lungs.
"Together may we step aside from the world and in and through our encouragement for one another may we inhale a deep breath of the pure love of God and be revived by the power of the holy spirit."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston
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