JUNE 20, 2016

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

NEHEMIAH 12-13

Nehemiah goes back to Babylon and while he is away things begin to fall apart...

10I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. 11So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

ACTS 4:23-37

The church becomes powerful and tends to those in need.

32All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

 

JOURNAL 

What an amazing vision of community.  This definitely is not the church I grew up in...I think there are times when we see glimpses of it...but it definitely is not the vision of the modern church. However I am reminded that it all starts with one individuals heart. Just as in the old testament with the apostles. Wherever God inspires someone to obey and love others...amazing community occurs.

 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.~ MATTHEW 7:12