Brotherhood...

I received a call this morning saying, "we need to go to Chicago today to pray with a brother in Christ who needs encouraging as He just had surgery for cancer" Now this is about a two to two and a half hour trip one way, and I have never even met this person before. This brother belongs to a local Church and has people around him who are near by. So why should we drop everything and go you might ask? Because my friend had a burden on his heart to go and pray in person with this man and even though I have never met him, he had a need, & in Christ he is my brother too, that's why. So me, my friend, and another friend all went. By the time we got back, I felt as though I was blessed most of all by the time spent on this trip. And it made me realize something else, we need to take serious the brotherhood in Christ, it's not just a catch phrase, we are truly made brothers in Christ. If your biological brother was diagnosed with cancer, you would probably drop everything and go. If anyone is in Christ, they are your brother. If your reading this and you are in Christ Jesus, we...are brothers. Let's stop acting like acquaintances, and strangers, and start acting like family. Are you in need? Call your brothers in Christ, we will come and help you, and pray with you.

Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble ~ 1 Peter 3:8 ~

 

 Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do...Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.

~ 1 Thessalonians 4:9 ~

 

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. ~ 1 Peter 5:9 ~

Let the love of the brethren continue among you. And do not forget kindness to strangers, for by this, some who, while they were unaware, were worthy to receive Angels. Remember those who are imprisoned, as if you are imprisoned with them. Call those to mind who are afflicted,
as if you are the people who wear their bodies ~ Hebrews 13:1-3 ~

 

We need each other. You are all my brothers, and I love you!