Hospitality as a lifestyle
Showing hospitality is precious! But what is hospitality exactly? Hospitality does not mean entertaining your guests at your dinner table and impressing them with your sparkling personality.
It is fairly easy to ask friends to come over and have fun. Hospitality does mean making whoever crosses your path feel welcome and safe, appreciated and known by their name. When we love and open our hands and hearts to receive someone, we are, in fact, extending God's and heaven's hospitality to them.
In Romans 12:13, Paul says: “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”
As part of the welcome team, we are scheduled on some Sunday mornings to practice hospitality to newcomers and visitors of our church. It is a great opportunity to do that but we also realise that we desire to be committed to practice hospitality at all times and everywhere to everyone! Our hospitality should not be limited to our duty on Sundays. Sometimes you may only have one chance to show your hospitality. So, don't miss it!
God is inviting us to be hospitable to all at all times. With humility and open hearts, spontaneously and deliberately, consciously and creatively, with flexibility and integrity, tact and wisdom, availability, love and a yielded life.
Is Hospitality for all of us to practice? Yes, hospitality is something everyone can give. It starts with what you have in your hands, offer it with a cheerful heart. Sometimes it is just a cold glass of water that you can offer to someone thirsty. Know that God's blessing is attached to it. Offer your time and your love to others as if you are offering it to the Lord Himself! Imitate Jesus who loved us more than life. Love others, live for others. Lives will change, including yours!
When God offers you the opportunity to be generous, He will honour and bless you. He will show you His presence!
In Romans 12:13, Paul says: “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”
As part of the welcome team, we are scheduled on some Sunday mornings to practice hospitality to newcomers and visitors of our church. It is a great opportunity to do that but we also realise that we desire to be committed to practice hospitality at all times and everywhere to everyone! Our hospitality should not be limited to our duty on Sundays. Sometimes you may only have one chance to show your hospitality. So, don't miss it!
God is inviting us to be hospitable to all at all times. With humility and open hearts, spontaneously and deliberately, consciously and creatively, with flexibility and integrity, tact and wisdom, availability, love and a yielded life.
Is Hospitality for all of us to practice? Yes, hospitality is something everyone can give. It starts with what you have in your hands, offer it with a cheerful heart. Sometimes it is just a cold glass of water that you can offer to someone thirsty. Know that God's blessing is attached to it. Offer your time and your love to others as if you are offering it to the Lord Himself! Imitate Jesus who loved us more than life. Love others, live for others. Lives will change, including yours!
When God offers you the opportunity to be generous, He will honour and bless you. He will show you His presence!
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