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10/27 Reading Portions: 2 Kings 8; 1 Timothy 5; Daniel 12; Psalm 119:49-72
Psalm 119:63
I am a companion of all who fear You, of those who keep Your precepts.
COMPANIONS
There is a blessed fellowship among the saints of God in Christ. We are bound by heavenly love because we were saved by God’s amazing grace through faith in Christ Jesus. We are companions of all who fear God; not to just a select few “super-saints” from our pathetic respecter-of-men estimation, but to everyone who keeps, protects, and cherishes His precepts. As companions, the Hebrew חָבֵר (cha-VER), we are “knit together as one man” (Jdg 20:11, KJV): in heart, in mind, and purpose. This is the spiritual reality, but our earthly hindrances sometimes keep us from the blessed experience and actual expression of this truth. In submission to Christ Jesus, by God’s grace, we must see those with a confession of faith in Christ as invaluable treasures. They, like you and I, have been purchased by the precious life, sufferings, blood, and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. So,
if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:7
And, oh! how this fellowship enhances our relationships with every faithful confessor of Christ with whom we are connected to by flesh and blood! Our husbands and wives are no longer merely helpmates— they are valued in the sight of the Lord, cleansed by His precious blood. Our children who have been saved by God’s grace are treasures of costly price, and moreover, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our saved parents become the utmost praise unto our sovereign God who has blessed us beyond measure to grant us divine care in His wonderful providence. And for our relatives who are not saved, we thank God for the privilege of possibly being used to be Christ’s witness unto them; and not only that, He brings us comfort through those friends in Christ’s church who stick to us closer than a brother, because of our Lord Jesus. Therefore,
let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25
