Pastor Ron’s Blog

EVERYONE NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT

Everyone needs encouragement. You that are parents just think for a moment about your first child and how you encouraged every step they would take. “Way to go sweetheart.” Or, “keep going, keep going you are doing great.” Just in a little while they would be walking. Much of that progress was due to your encouragement.

The desire for encouragement continues throughout our lives. It has been said that the theme of “encouraging one another” is one of the most dominate themes in the New Testament.

We are living in a time when we all need to be attentive to one another. Even as I write this blog there are marriages across America and in churches that are in chaos. Many Christians have succumbed to a level of discouragement.

The writer to the Hebrews speaks clearly to the importance of encouragement when he says, “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.”(Hebrews 3:13) This theme is mentioned again in Hebrews 10:25, “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

Everyone needs a cheerleader in life. There are too many lonely people who are not being touched by the ministry of encouragement.

The high school basketball team, I was a part of, had some great cheerleaders one of whom I have been married to for 50 years. How pumped up the team would get when we would make our way out on the floor as the school band played and the student body sang our school song. Talk about sending a chill up your spine and bringing out the best in you as a player. So it is in the Christian walk as we become cheerleaders for one another.

Reach out to someone today and be their cheerleader in the ministry of encouragement. It could make all the difference in their day.

Pastor Ron