Get Along, Always!

Today I want to continue looking at how, as Christians, we should live our lives, using words from the bible for guidance.

The text I want to use today is from 1 Thessalonians 5:13-15 (The Message):

Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get a move on. Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other’s nerves you don’t snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out.

In the same way as I talking about how we must be supportive and encouraging towards our leaders/managers in yesterday’s blog post (Support Them, Always!), the same applies to our relationships with one another. i.e. We must try to always be loving and supportive of others.

God doesn’t expect us all to become the best of friends, but He does expect us to respect one another and support each other. Just because we don’t necessarily agree with someone’s viewpoint or perspective, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t love them and respect them. After all none of us are perfect, we all have our faults, we all have our good points and our bad points, but God love each one of us in spite of them!

If God can love each of us despite our faults, surely we must try our hardest to encourage one another, despite our religious, economic, political, environmental or physical differences. So reach out and help those around you, they need you, they need God.

In summary The Way He Wants You To Live #2 – get on with everyone you meet, support and encourage them at all times.

 

They Need Christ (John Gowans)

 

There are people living in the world out there…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ;

There are children crying and no one to care…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

And they’ll go on hurting in the world out there,

And they’ll go on dying, drowning in despair,

And they’ll go on crying, that’s unless we care:

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

 

There are people living who would rather die…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ;

And their Christian neighbours simply pass them by…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

There are people sitting by a silent phone,

People cold and hungry, people left alone,

Suicides for reasons that remain unknown:

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

 

There’s the prostitute and there’s the prisoner too…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ;

There’s the ‘skid row’ fella who has lost a shoe…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

The compulsive gambler dreaming of his yacht,

And the lad that’s stealing just to get his ‘shot’,

And the kid that’s pregnant and pretends she’s not:

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.

 

There are runaways who want a place to go…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ;

There are alcoholics who don’t seem to know…

They need you, they need me, they need Christ;

There are God-less people who have lost their way,

And they need God’s love but they’re afraid to say.

If we close our eyes perhaps they’ll go away

Without you, without me, without Christ;

They need you, they need me, they need Christ.