Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Romans 12:13
“Hospitality is the vernacular of heaven and needs to be more widely inculcated in practical exemplification on earth. Gentle warmth opens the pores of our body sooner than intense heat. The wild rose of the wilderness and its kindred flowers more delicately nurtured in our gardens shut themselves up alike when the sun retires and the chilling damps of night approach.”
Elisha L. Magoon in Day’s Collacon, compiled and arranged by Edward Parsons Day (New York: IPPO, 1884) 388.
What does hospitality look like in “practical exemplification” in your life? In plain terms, how is your generosity expressed through “gentle warmth” or “thoughtful gestures” toward others?
Christian generosity thinks about the needs of others and meets them in practical ways. How can you use what you have to serve those around you in generous, thoughtful, and warm ways?
On my travels this past week fly fishing with my son, Sammy, in various wilderness areas, I saw many flowers cared for by our Father in heaven. He gave them water to drink and warm sun to blossom by day.
It reminded me that we can be be generous and hospitable knowing that our Father in heaven will care for us too. When we trust in His faithful care, it frees is to function according to the vernacular of heaven, or in a word, hospitably.