HOSPITALity

Offer hospitality without grumbling.

1 Peter 4:9

September 10
Friday, Nancy Leigh DeMoss had on her radio show, one of the best pieces on God's command to "offer hospitality" that I have ever heard.  It is taken from 2 Kings chapter 4:5-13.

⁸ One day Elisha went to Shunem.^(E) And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. ⁹ She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. ¹⁰ Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay^(F) there whenever he comes to us.”

¹¹ One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. ¹² He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.”^(G) So he called her, and she stood before him.¹³ Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you?

Now while this woman put a small addition on her home for the prophet Elisha, she did not decorate it elaborately.  :-)  We may simply be called to offer a meal, a place to sit and cry, a glass of water to a hot UPS man!

The theme continued yesterday with an open discussion of a group of women sharing the different ways "hospitality" can look at various stages of our lives.
I promise  you it is worth the 20 minutes to listen.

http://www.reviveourhearts.com/radio/revive-our-hearts/opening-your-heart-and-home/

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have

entertained angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:2

I'm praying today for each of us to be found faithful in this way.