#GOFAMINTDailyDevotion Fri. 9/2/2018
Quarter’s Theme: INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CHURCH
UNIT 3 – Sustaining Interpersonal Relationship (Lessons 8-12)
CONSECRATION AND DEDICATION MONTHS
Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 286, 352
Devotional Reading: GAL. 6:1-10
Topic For Adults
BE A SHOULDER FOR SOMEONE TO LEAN ON
Topic For Youths
LEND A HELPING HAND
Topic For Adults
IT IS GOOD TO HELP OTHERS
Scripture Lesson
ROM. 14:1; 1 THESS. 5:14; ROM. 15:1-6
11/2/2018 LESSON 11
BEAR EACH OTHER’S BURDENS
MEMORY VERSE
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ (Gal. 6:2) NKJV
DAILY DEVOTIONAL READING
Fri. 9/2/2018
Warning Against Idleness
2 Thess. 3:6-15
The Apostle warns us in today’s text against some brethren who walk disorderly and are not governing their lives by the precepts agreeable to their profession of faith. It is required of those who have received the gospel, and who profess a subjection to it, that they live according to the gospel. If they do not, they are to be counted disorderly persons. Idle persons will turn to busy bodies and they are not allowed among the people of God. This may seem to be a contradiction; but so it is, that most commonly those persons who have no business of their own to do, or who neglect it, busy themselves in other men’s matters. If we are idle, the devil and a corrupt heart will soon find us something to do. The mind of man is a busy thing; if it be not employed in doing good, it will be doing evil. Note, busy-bodies are disorderly walkers, such as are guilty of vain curiosity, and impertinent meddling with things that do not concern them, and troubling themselves and others with other men’s matters. You must work. He that will not work should not eat. Some people do not really want to do anything but just want to stay on the neck of the people of God as pests.
Point of Emphasis: People may need assistance but not that they should choose not to work and then constitute busy bodies and a nuisance to the body of Christ.
Prayer Point: O Lord, open the heavens and grant good employment to all our brethren who are job seekers soonest.
