Pondering Point

In the early weeks of reflecting on fostering relationships with people, we focused on introducing people to God and encouraging people to grow in Him. This week’s theme has potential to pave the way to some of the deepest relationships people form in the Christian faith: Growing together.

If we are going to grow together, we will need to be completely humble and gentle. We will need to be patient and bear with one another in love. Who are you growing together with, learning together with, praying together with, and worshipping together with?

God requests that we live lives worthy of the calling we have received – and that calling always include others – even to the point of bearing with one another in love. We are not called to be humble, gentle and patient with ourselves, but with others.

• In Christ, I am empowered to live a life worthy of the calling I have received God, enabling me to be completely humble, gentle, and patient, and to bear with others in love.