byHebrews 10:25 is one of the most famous scriptures when preachers speak concerning congregants being regular in church. But few mention what the writer said in the preceding verse, which I’m glad to pen down an article about today. The Bible says in Hebrews 10:24 (ESV) that,
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,”
Kindly take a look at the verse very carefully. There is a stirring to make among ourselves as believers. And you know that stirring involves work. Assuming you are baking a cake, what do you do? You mix the flour with the other ingredients. However, after that, stirring them together makes the mixture achieve an excellent state. Right? God wants us to stir up one another to love and good works. Let’s break that down.
Loving people as God does is a lot of work. Your good works will indeed be “good” if they’re done out of love, not really out of strict necessity. You can always give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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Stir one another to love
The word “love” in Hebrews 10:24 is about the God-kind of love, not just any kind of love. For every believer in Christ, God is in them (see 1 John 4:4). And because God is love, it means that His love dwells in every believer regardless of the spiritual maturity state of the person.
So, if the scripture says we are to stir one another to love, then it means that God’s love cannot entirely be made manifest without some form of work done. That work is not dependent on only you but also on others. It’s a stirring; you have a part to play, and I also have. In most cases, this work is not equally balanced because not everyone has perfected God’s love in them. That is why you should not be surprised when another believer does something bad to you, because that person is not perfect.
Stir one another to good works
James 2:26 explains that faith without works is dead. So, stirring one another to love also has good works following it. In fact, loving people as God does is a lot of work. Your good works will indeed be “good” if they’re done out of love, not really out of strict necessity. You can always give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Jesus Christ was anointed by the Spirit of God and went about doing good to people (see Acts 10:28). His good works were not without the anointing but with it. If you want to live as God desires you to be, don’t set aside that excelling grace to reach that height of Christianity.
You are a blessing.
