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God's Encouragement ...

Monday, April 20, 2015. Who is giving you encouragement? Who is it who helps you to go and do your work, to go and to your things? What is keeping your upright?

Biblical Encouragement …

There are many things which can help you. When people tell you, that they value your contribution, that they are very interested in your work, in what you can give, that can be very encouraging.

But I think that we need an encouragement which is deeper and better than just the encouragement of others and the encouragement which success can give. God himself wants to be our encouragement, our goal, our comforter. He wants to be the one who is giving us life and rest. With him, our soul finds peace.

It is possible to experience this comfort very practically. I have just been reading the New Testament, the Sermon on the Mount written in Matthew 5-7. And looking around a little bit I ended up in Luke 12. Honestly, I do not know better things than just reading the bible and following it. You can learn many things. You can be successful. You can gain wisdom. It is all fine, but finally only God's word will be able to guide you and hold you. Take some time to read yourself:

Fear not, little flock …

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?3 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,4 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. 32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Luke 12)

What Jesus says is so much better than all we could get together. It is so much deeper and wiser than all our worldly wisdom. It is good to listen, and it is good to do what we have heard to let him shape our life. When we want to be a blessing, we should follow him. (RWEP) ... more texts