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Honey From The Rock
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A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
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What's Your "Daily Concern"?

This entry was posted on 03-24-2007 and is filed under Devotional.

"Besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches" (2 Corinthians 11:28 NKJV).

What concerns you daily? For most of us those concerns revolve around our family, our health, and our finances. For the apostle Paul, however, his big concern was for all the churches. I take this to mean the congregations that he had established or visited. You can see his deep concern in some of his letters that he wrote to them.

Do the churches of our Lord concern you at all? Some are being persecuted. Some are on the brink of extinction. Some are arguing and dividing. Some, like Laodicia, are lukewarm. Some are growing. Some are dying. Some have left their first love. I am concerned that some churches do not recognize other churches as even being their brothers and sisters in Christ. In Heaven we will not have this daily concern. But right now we, like Paul, are burdened with "deep concern for all the churches."

Hymn: 'Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war, she waits the consumation of peace forevermore; till with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blest, and the great Church victorious shall be the Church at rest. (Samuel J. Stone)