Today's encouragement comes from 1 Timothy 3:15, where we read these words:
"But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."If we can learn to live in the church as those who love Christ, we can then thrive in every other realm of life in God-honoring ways. Conversely, if we never become faithful churchmen, then we will always fail God in all other di-mensions of our lives. Many people—even those who profess to be Chris-tians—disdain the church, to their soul’s destruction. But Jesus loves His church; and died for her.
On top of all that, the church is, "the pillar and ground of the truth." Let us, as faithful members of Christ's body, hold out the gospel to our dead world, and stand for the truth of the Gospel of Christ at every turn.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Happy is he that in his way to heaven meets with with a cheerful and skillful guide and fellow-traveler . . . “ —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself"]
