Encouragement is the Luxury I can’t Live Without

Daily writing promptWhat’s the one luxury you can’t live without?View all responses

Encouragement is luxuriously life-enhancing. I love to wrap myself up in it and soak up its presence. It’s an opulent spa for my soul. I make and spend time with encouraging friends. I devour uplifting books and web sites. I consistently choose to consume hope filled videos and other positive media. I persistently write, speak, and post optimism. I make my brain think reassuring thoughts. (Philippians 4:8) Luxurious encouragement is a wonderful thing to experience and to share with other people.

Through word and deed
All Christians need
To plant the seed
Of encouragement
In each other
And to help lead
One another
Away from sin,
Deceitfulness,
And unbelief
So we can be freed
To faithfully serve
The living God.
(Hebrews 3:12-13)

Encouraging Christians to believe in, rely on, and faithfully obey the living God isn’t just a preacher’s Sunday morning responsibility. All Christ-followers are called and commanded to consistently encourage each other. New Testament Christianity is about all believers in Jesus personally taking up the responsibility to mutually, actively, and continually encouraging one another throughout each day.

Instead of passively waiting for and depending on a preacher or someone else to encourage you, make it your lifestyle to daily take up your biblical responsibility to persistently encourage everyone you meet. If you will “in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others,” (Philippians 2:3-4) you will begin to knock sin’s deceitfulness off of its feet and force it retreat.

What do you say we all get started today? Be kind and compassionate to one another. (Ephesians 4:32) Bear one another’s burdens. (Galatians 6:3) Build one another up. (Romans 14;19) Be devoted to one another. (Romans 12:10) Serve one another. (Galatians 5:13) Be patient with one another. (Ephesians 4:2) Comfort one another. (1 Thessalonians 4:18) Show hospitality to each other. (1 Peter 4:9) Use your gifts to bless each other. (I Peter 4:10) Stir up one another to love and good works. (Hebrews 10:24) And of course, love one another. (John 13:34-35)

Every day I read the Bible with an open heart and allow God the Holy Spirit to speak His encouraging words to me as I do. That’s true luxury.

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