Encouragement

November 5, 2007

Sometimes life can be discouraging to people. Everyday people can find things to get them discouraged. Often it is the people that they know that do it to them. The married couple may say discouraging words to each other, or worse, one may put the other down constantly , maybe even without realizing they are doing it. Co-workers may be out to get the best deal for themselves so they discourage what the person is doing. Even just looking at the news may be discouraging.

But that is not what God wants from us. God wants us to encourage people.

Hebrews 10:25 AUV-NT
(25) We should not neglect our assembling together [as a church], as some people are in the habit of doing, but we should encourage one another [spiritually], and [do it] all the more [diligently] as you see the day [of judgment] coming closer.

God does not say to go to church to do it. We are not to gather in our services and get encouragement, though it can and should be done there. God does want us to encourage the people we meet on a day to day basis. Look at your actions to others. Are you being encouraging to them, or are you letting them get by or maybe even putting them down.

Take some time to encourage others today, God told you to, not me.