SJF - Daily Worship, Word and Spirit - Nov. 6, 2023

We have spiritual leaders in our lives who help us become mature in Christ Jesus by speaking the truth in love. The rest of us join in helping each other become mature through edifying each other in love. Love is the way Godly spiritual people speak truth. The body of Christ is enriched this way. It is also the way believers should speak to themselves. Humility is accepting what God says about you and others as truth, and then, through love, applying those words to how we treat ourselves and others. Love has four dimensions. It has height flowing between you and God. It has depth flowing between you and you. It has breadth flowing between you and others. And it has length (endurance and patience) flowing past the end of time. Love never fails and it lifts and builds people up without giving up, but it does remain silent, at times, like while it is waiting to be received.

“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” (Ephesians 4:11–16, NKJV)