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Ladies Daily Devotional
3-31-06
Part
3
By
Beverly Rainwater
The
Caring Heart
The church is what? It is the family of God. We have a family
that reaches far and wide! We never have to feel that we
know no one in a place if we will but find a congregation of the Lord's
people and associate ourselves with them. We can count on the fact
that time and distance will never sever the union or the love which is
between the members of the family of God. We are one of a family no
matter where we go, no matter what we do. We cannot be part of the
family of God on Sunday and not part of it through the rest of the
week.
The
church of Christ is made up of the followers of Christ. The members of His
church are those who have taken up the cross and followed Him. They are the
ones who will always be a part of that family. God does not break the
ties to us even though sometimes we may think we have lost contact with Him. (If
we turn our backs on God and become disobedient we
can sever our ties with God and our Christian family.)
God
gave us the church for many reasons. One reason is so
that we might enjoy companionship. We should be able to share our
burdens, strengthen one another, praise God and magnify Christ. We
should have fellowship and love through the church.
Women's
work in the church begins when she is born into God's family and it doesn't
end until she leaves this earth to join God's family in heaven. This
love for God causes her to be sensitive to the service she can do and
because of her love for Him she does not wait to be asked to do what she can
but instead she does it out of love and caring.
Christian
women should be stewards of God. They can be Christian teachers. When
you think about it, every Christian woman teaches every day. We may not be
aware of this but we should be because by our examples we are teachers to
those who we may not even realize are watching us.
As
Christian women we should be willing to serve in any capacity, and not
grumble because we think we are asked to do too much, or we don't have
enough time to do or that it is something we don't have the ability to do.
Why should we not grumble and come up with excuses? It is because if we do
that then we are showing by our example that we do not believe what we read
in the Bible:
"I
can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me." (Philippians
4:13)
If
we do not work for the Lord and grow in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord, can we truly say we are "pure in heart"?
*****Article 407*****
"Scripture
taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by
Thomas Nelson,Inc. Used by permission. All rights
reserved."
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