Tuesday 19 May 2009

Tuesday Reading: Romans 15:1-7
 
Key Verse: Romans 15:7
7  Therefore receive one another as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Devotion:
One thing that will get drilled into you when you play a team sport is that you must play as a team and not as individuals. If each player went out to make themselves look good rather than playing with the team then you would have a whole bunch of individual teams running round the field rather than one team; the result would not be as good as it should be. We definitely need to look at our lives in a similar manner and work for each other rather than just working for yourself.

As Christians we come together as a single church where we need to make sure that we do uphold each other and support each other whenever we can. If we all worked for our own glory then God would be left out of our lives and we would no longer be a church. If, however, we all worked together to ensure that God is the one getting the glory and that God is the focal point of the church then we will find that we are all working together rather than for ourselves.

Christ gave us an extraordinary example by showing us that He was willing to make Himself nothing more than one of us so that He could work with us for God’s glory. He did not lift Himself up and rule as a lord over the land but came as a servant of God who was willing to do things for His fellow men. He took on our punishment just to show us how much God loves us. He has made sure that we have all these things written down so that we can remember the example that He was and is. We also need to have patience to stop running ahead of ourselves and staying with the team making sure that we keep with like-minded Christians so that God will get all the glory that He alone deserves.

We are members of one church, God’s church. We need to make sure that we support each other in everything that we do. We don’t need prima-donnas to follow blindly around; we need to keep our eyes firmly focused on God and we have His word to do that.

Points to Ponder:
Do you like showing off?

Are you working with your fellow Christians?