#DailyDevotion It’s Not Good For The Christian To Be Alone
5th Sunday in Easter
Acts 8:29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
We have a principle that guides two other principles we see here. One of those principles is that as believers in Jesus Christ, the Lord wants us to share to good news of Jesus Christ with other people. He will bring them into our lives. Probably not in the same dramatic way he brought Philip to the Ethiopian, but he will put them in our lives nevertheless. The other principle is we need other people to explain the scriptures to us, even the professionals. There are no individual Christians. We are one body with the Lord. Which brings us to the overriding principle, it is not good that the man be along. The Lord always intended for us humans to be in communion with each other in communion with him.
So in the book of Hebrews it is written, Heb 10:24-25 “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, (25) not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
So we gather together as the Church the body of Christ. We see it throughout the book of Acts, the disciples gathering together to devote themselves to the apostles’ teaching, the breaking of bread and to prayer. We see it in the letters to the churches in Paul’s letters. The people of Christ gathered together regularly as the Church and there they heard God’s Word, the Good News of Jesus Christ.
When we gather together as the Church we come to hear God’s Word. Paul tells us, 2Ti 3:16-17 “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (17) that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” So the Lord gives us pastors and teachers to use God’s Word in this manner. And as we interact with them as they preach and teach, they themselves are edified and instructed in the Word.
So let us together, gather around the Word of Christ, that we may be instructed in that word, abide in Christ and bear the fruit of righteousness edifying one another as we see the day approaching of our Lord’s return.
Heavenly Father, always send us those who can explain your word to us that we may believe, be built up and be prepared to witness to other our faith in your son Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.