Let us considerer how to provoke
one another to love and good deeds.
{Hebrews 10:24}
We all can be forces for good or evil in the world.
By our example, we can encourage one another to fol-
low or to reflect God's will. The author of Hebrews
reminds us that we should inspire each other to
"love and good deeds."
We can see instances every day where the example of
one person empowers others to follow suit. Someone
needs help to complete a task, and as soon as
the first person takes the initiative to pitch in, others
follow. In a traffic jam no one will give an inch until one
good soul allows a neighbor in, and suddenly others do
the same. The church needs someone to serve in a soup
kitchen; at first there is silence, but after one volun-
teers, several others step forward. A basketball team is
losing to a less talented team when a hustling, spirited
substitute enters the game and inspires the other play-
ers so that the game turns around.
God asks each of us, at different times, to be the spir-
ited soul who moves others "to love and good deeds."
None of us is suited to be the leader in every situation;
but if we each take our turn being the positive provoker,
what a better community we would have!
God wants us to provoke one another
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