encouragement... a word that spurs...

Encouragement... it doesn't always come across as warm and fuzzy... comforting... sometimes it feels more like a sharp poke in the side...

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. ...let us encourage one another --- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 10:24-25

(my emphasis)

I gave some today... the sharp kind... not the fuzzy kind... I hadn't planned to... didn't even intend to... as I looked for the scripture in the pages on my lap... the one depicting the Word fleshing out in the conversation...

Then the question came... Do you have a word for us...?

And there it was... Yes... but I don't think you will like it...

I shared the Word... and with it came passionate encouragement... exhortation... maybe even a rebuke... an edge to the voice... a fire I did not intend to stir...

Needless to say... the conversation abated... subject changed... parties moved on to lunch...

I don't know what will happen with the Word planted today... or if it should have been... but it was... time will tell what God will do with it...

Just grateful... resting in the truth that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him... and knowing the spur came from a heart of love...