I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill. {Phil 2:26 NLT}
As believers, we cannot build with trowels only nor can we battle with the swords alone, we need both to build a healthy and balanced church that will be victorious in every spiritual confrontation by the devil. Our scriptural focus for today states – I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill. Apostle Paul was sending epaphroditus back to the Philippian church, not because he has become a liability to him nor has he become a hindrance to the furtherance of the gospel in Rome, but for the singular reason that he longed to see his brethren.
The same concern and godly love that made him risk his life to go to Rome to see to the welfare of Apostle Paul, was still at work in him towards his own brethren in Philippi. His heart was heavy, hearing that his brethren in Philippi had heard about his illness. He didn’t want his brethren in Philippi to be overtaken by his welfare. What a show of godly love, what a show of selfless Christian service.
Sincerely our churches today need men and women who are truly burdened for missions and for believers in difficult places of Christian service. The church should do all within her reach to promote godly love among fellow believers, such that we can genuinely long to be in the fellowship of one another. Lets learn to put our personal welfare below the overall interest of the church. Today, the message of retaliation has regularly taken over the church and its destroying the spiritual virtues of godly love and selfless service in the church and society.
Let’s promote genuine godly love among believers.
Have a Grace filled day – Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: January 26, 2016
