Our text expresses the comfort and encouragement, experienced by those
who are united in faith to God. Christians are well acquainted with the
distresses and trials of life, the rigours of persecutions and the challenges of
reaching the lost. All such things add to the ‘discomfort’ that may be experienced as we walk ‘in Christ’. Yet God has not left His people without comfort! He not
only sent the ‘Comforter’ - His Holy Spirit, to fill, empower and guide the
believer, but He has also ensured that our hearts may find comfort in the reality
of the companionship, fellowship and brotherhood that exist within the Church.
The bonds of this company of blood-washed, redeemed individuals are strong! God’s
family is meant to be close-knit and cohesive. Like the sinews and tendons that
hold the joints of our bodies, even so the members of the Body of Christ, are
held together by the strong bonds of the truth and love, which God has imparted
to them. This is the mortar that joins each brick in the building and forms the
edifice of God! The brethren that belong to the family of God, are not meant to
be disavowed, distanced acquaintances, empty of common purpose and devoid of
interest and love for one another. The
opposite is true! God’s will for us is that we are ‘knitted together’ into a
solid, unified ‘oneness’, fused with the ‘glue’ of His amazing love, and motivated
by His Spirit to carry out His godly and spiritual purposes! May the hearts of
those who willingly put aside their own program of life, and embrace God and
His ways, find in Jesus, and in the wonderful family of God, the joy, comfort
and strength of His love, and the blessing of intimate unity.
http://www.pentecostalfamilychurch.com.au/devotion
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