Abound In This Grace Also - Serve In Love Toward One Another

Today's Focus Scripture - 2 Corinthians 8:1-9

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Ron's 15th Anniversary was today for him and his wonderful wife Stephanie.

2 Corinthians 8:1-9

1 Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,
2 that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.
3 For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,
4 begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,
5 and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
6 So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
7 But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.
8 I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.


Verse 6 is something to ponder, as Ron indicated.

Insisting in serving beyond one's personal abilities.  Copy the people of Macedonia in their faith and service toward each other and to Jesus.

Faith without works is dead.  So to is our service in that our works, our service toward one another is done in faith in serving Jesus overall.

Our sincerity is tested.  The Lord gave everything for our sake, so too we should give our all in service to one another.