Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Saturday, 30 September 2017 "Fellowship With Others" by Ian Robinson - Proverbs 27:1-10

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Saturday, 30 September 2017 "Fellowship With Others" by Ian Robinson - Proverbs 27:1-10
Proverbs 27:1 Don’t boast about tomorrow,
    for you don’t know what the day may bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth,
    a stranger and not your own lips.
3 Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight,
    but a fool’s provocation outweighs them both.
4 Fury is cruel and anger overwhelming,
    but who can stand up to jealousy?
5 Better open rebuke
    than hidden love.
6 Wounds from a friend are received as well-meant,
    but an enemy’s kisses are insincere.
7 A person who is full loathes a honeycomb;
    but to the hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
8 Like a bird that strays from its nest
    is a man who strays from his home.
9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad,
    [also] friendship sweet with advice from the heart.
10 Don’t abandon a friend
    who is also a friend of your father.
Don’t enter your brother’s house on the day of your calamity —
    better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
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As a born extrovert, I always want to be first to arrive and last to leave any event. However, I married an introvert who is the exact opposite. Over the years, we have learned to compromise.
Being around people energizes me because that’s the way God designed me. We were created for fellowship–first with him and then with each other. Even introverts have an innate need for fellowship from time to time! This is where we meet our friends and can be open and honest. We can ask for and receive wise counsel, and we can rejoice in good times or grieve in sad times with one another.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life ended in the loneliness of solitary confinement, said, “The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.” Enjoy our times with other believers–we were created for sweet fellowship.
Hymn for Today:

"Blest be the Ties That Binds" by John Fawcett
1. Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
2. Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.
3. We share each other’s woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4. When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
5. This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
6. From sorrow, toil and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
Thought for Today:
Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight,
    a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.(Proverbs 27:9, TM}
Please pray:
That many people in Haiti will come to know Yeshua the Messiah and receive the fullness of the Ruach HaKodesh.
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