❄️🌨️Encourage☃️

 We should be lifting each other up and cheering each other on, not trying to outshine one another. The sky would be awfully dark with just one star.

Hebrews 13:2 (KJV) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

We don’t always know who we are helping or who is talking with us, it could be an angel unawares. On a day not long after I had given my heart to the Lord. I was coming home from a community college I was attending. There on the side of the road was a man tumbling for a ride. I was not in the habit of picking up people but for whatever reason I stopped and picked him up. I asked him where he was headed and he said Lithonia. Now that's where I was living at the time. I said great that’s where I’m going. For whatever reason I took him to his mobile home where he was living. Now here is where it get strange. As we pulled into a dirt driveway on a big farm we went by a big barn and then to a big field where his mobile home sat. He asked me if I would like to come in?  So I did and we sat inside his mobile home, where we talked. Now I had no clue where in the world I was at and neither did anyone else. As we talked I told him about the Lord. He told me about his son that had a drinking problem and asked me if I would call him? To which I said yes I would be glad too. I left and as I drove back up the dirt driveway the motor in my car just stopped running. I looked at my gas gauge and it pointed to about ⅛. Yeah, I know that is less than a quarter and yes I needed gas but that was plenty to get me to a gas station. I went back to the mobile home and this man came and got some gas out of the barn and put it in my car. I turned the key and to my amazement it started right up. I did call the number that the man gave me for his son but I got a recording telling me that the number was no longer in service. I decided to go back and tell that man what had happened hoping he had given me the wrong number. I could not find that place at all. It had just been a few days and I had not forgotten the way back but there was no dirt road, no farm, no barn, nothing. Thinking back over all that I believe I had entertained and angel unaware. Oh you may say that’s not so you just forgot how to get back to his home. I would say yes you are right except that I was not in a strange place I knew where I was and I knew how to get back to that farm. My car that ran out of gas was not out of gas. Am I crazy or did I entertain an angel unawares? So be ye kind one to another for you never know who that stranger may be. 

Matthew 25:35 (KJV) For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:     

Matthew 25:36 (KJV)  Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.                                                        Matthew 25:37 (KJV)  Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 

Matthew 25:38 (KJV)  When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 

Matthew 25:39 (KJV)  Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?                              

Matthew 25:40 (KJV)  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.