Date: 07-05-2020

Title: Encourage

(S) cripture:
    Hebrews 3:12-13 (NASB) Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

(O) bservation:
    The writer is warning against unbelief and gives a command to encourage one another each day. This encouragement keeps us from being hardened by sin.

(A) pplication:
    This statement seems to say that encouragement is good for both the encourager and the one being encouraged. It is important to see the urgency in this command. We are to do this “Today” and not wait until tomorrow. We only have today and that is what we are to be about. I think maybe you can delay your criticism, but encouragement is to happen each and every day. We are not to delay in our encouragement. Today I will seek to encourage those I meet. I will practice this command. I want to be known as an encourager and so I will be about that today.

(P) rayer:
    Lord, make me aware of how best to encourage those around me today. Give me a heart that is sensitive to the needs of people and let me offer a good word for them today. Amen