First of all a correction to yesterday’s blog, there was an eighth reference in 1 John with the words ‘Dear children’. I missed a very important verse;
4:4 You, Dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater(the Greater One dwells in us)than the one who is in the world. Hallelujah!
Surely this is something to be thankful for today, the Greater One, The Lord Almighty, lives in each of His children. Take a moment to praise and be thankful to the in dwelling Spirit of God in our lives.
The apostle Paul had to bring correction to the early church but he also makes a number of references about a loving relationship to those entrusted to him;
1 Thess 2:7,8 …but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children. We loved you so much that we were delighted to share … our lives with you as well, because you had become so dear to us.
1 Thess 2:11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory(yes Lord, help us to come to You).
1 Cor 4:14 I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you, as my dear children. Even though you have 10,000 guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through this gospel.
Gal 4:19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you(even though Paul was bringing correction to the Galatian Church, he still addressed them as his ‘dear children’).
God has appointed offices within His Church, Eph 2:20, 4:11, “to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ”. John and Paul functioned in these high offices, but treated those they ministered to as ‘dear children’. They ministered out of Christ’s love; ‘NOT LORDING IT OVER those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock’. 1 Peter 5:3.
May you be blessed with loving, caring leaders as you walk with your Lord this day.
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