DAILY?READINGS: Numbers 29; Proverbs 25 to 26:12; Luke 2:22-52
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. Philippians 4:14
When was the last time you gave a fellow believer a word of praise? We can be guilty of waiting till the day we bury them before we proclaim their merits and worth. A number of years ago two believers shared letters back and forth. Referring to a mutual friend, one wrote “The hearty warm approval of a friend is more than wealth and more than money, if you think some praise is due him, now’s the time to slip it to him. For he cannot read his tombstone when he is dead.” Why not encourage a brother or sister with a word of appreciation. Don’t take them for granted. Say well done! —Brian Powlesland
Father, make us loving, gentle, thoughtful, kind;
Fill us with Thy Spirit, make us of Thy mind. —F. Kirkland