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Daily devotional
We were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. ?1 Thessalonians 2:7
Don Tack wanted to know what life was like for homeless people. So he concealed his identity and went to live on the streets of his city. He found out that food and shelter were offered by many organizations. At one shelter he could spend the night if he listened to a sermon beforehand. He appreciated the guest speaker?s message and wanted to talk with him afterward. But as Don reached out to shake the man?s hand and asked if he could talk with him, the speaker walked right past him as if he didn?t exist.
Don learned that what was missing most in ministry to the homeless in his area were people who were willing to build relationships. So he began an organization called Servants Center to offer help through friendship.
What Don encountered at the shelter was the opposite of what the people who heard the apostle Paul experienced. When he shared the gospel, he gave himself too. He testified in his letter to the Thessalonians, ?We were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us? (1 Thess. 2:8). He said, ?We were gentle among you,? like a mother (v.7).
In our service for the Lord, do we share not just our words or money but our time and friendship? ? Anne Cetas
I want to do service for Christ while I live,
And comfort and cheer to poor lonely hearts give;
For this is the program approved by the Word,
To visit the needy and speak of the Lord. ?Bosch
One measure of our likeness to Christ is our sensitivity to the suffering of others.