Today’s Devotion
Topic: Fellowship Is Important!
Text: Hebrews 10: 24-25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Amen
Many of us have explained that Christianity is an individual affair so we don’t necessarily need to fellowship with others. Our bodies are God’s temple and that’s all that matters, and not the gathering people call church- we can reach God by ourselves, for ourselves. There’s no need to join other believers in worship. We have no use for a minister, “He will chop our money” we say.
We conduct church services with ourselves alone every Sunday on our beds. At that service, we are our own praise and worship leaders, sermon preachers, communion givers, choir and congregation. By the time we close the service we have had, with ourselves in the bedroom, we would have preached to ourselves just the sermon we feel like hearing, sang the praise and worship songs we love to sing and prayed only as much as we are willing to pray and for whomever we preferred to pray for.
We do this continuously for 6 months and realize we are becoming somewhat distant from God. Instead of growing spiritually, we become stagnant, with laziness, domestic distractions, television and sleep competing with the Lord for our attention. Every time we are tired, worn, down or sick, we wish someone else encouraged us or prayed with us. But there’s actually none to do so because we are the only members of the church we have created in our bedroom.
It’s not long and the devil begins to whisper lies that are difficult to resist knowing there is no one to hold our Christian lives in check. With time, the pressures of this world becomes over bearing on us till it chokes out the Jesus we love and make us neutral with the world.
Beloved, don’t let the devil lie to you; we need to fellowship with each other. ‘For as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another’ (Prov. 27:17). From the days of Moses, God’s chosen people have gathered often to fellowship and teach each other the ways of the Lord, at least once a week. Jesus our Lord never missed a gathering. He was at the synagogue every Sabbath teaching or listening to teachings. He fully participated (observed) in all religious festivals and even availed Himself for John’s baptism. He, who is the King of kings, didn’t attempt ministry alone. He chose 12 men with Him.
The author of Hebrews admonishes us to draw near to God with a sincere heart and consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. He explains that we should do both without giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Beloved, let us redeem the time for the days we are in are evil. Bring your joy, another will bring his faith; bring your love, another will bring his praise; bring your worship, another will bring his prayer; then the house of the Lord will be filled with the sweet fragrance of His presence. He will impart grace into our hearts. Grace to pardon our sins and teach how to have a much closer walk with the Lord until we become like Him in all things! See you at church!
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