Be Still And Know

Hebrews 10.24-25 NLT 'Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.' The New Testament has no understanding of a lone Christian, who heroically keeps going by themselves. Time and again we are reminded that we have responsibilities for one another, and here the writer uses very striking language. The Greek literally means that we should try to provoke one another to do acts of love and good works. That is to say, we should look for imaginative ways of stimulating one another to live for God. It won’t just happen. We need to love one another so much that we will take responsibility for encouraging one another to live out the Christian life. And that encouragement will only take place if we meet together and so he stresses the importance of not neglecting the times of meeting. When the Christians had gone through a time of suffer