Encouragement

December 10, 2007

Not that there will ever be a good year, but it seems like this year has been bad for Church scandals. In some, ministers have repented, admitted their guilt and gone on. In others, they have not, maybe cause they are not guilty, or maybe because that have felt superior to others in the church.

Hebrews 3:12-13 ALT
(12) Be watching, brothers [and sisters], lest [there] will be in any of you* an evil heart [fig., inner self] of unbelief [which] falls away from the living God.
(13) _But_ be encouraging one another daily, while it is being called "Today," lest any of you* be hardened [fig., are made stubborn] by [the] deception of sin.

When someone thinks they are better than the rest of us Christians, then they show they have not read Hebrews very well, if at all. The writer of Hebrews makes in quite clear here that we need to encourage people day by day. If we do not, either we or they, or both, will become hardened. Then we go to sin.

It is an easy path to sin, some that are at the top of the ministry have to ask themselves every day 'have I encouraged someone today.' The bad part is those at the bottom can get the same way. Have you encouraged someone today? Do you know someone who does? Send an e-mail to them to encourage them, give them a call. (No, send it to someone else not me.) Encourage people while you can...