Sunday, February 18, 2024
The Regions BEYOND you!
2 Cor 10:15-16
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of
other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased,
that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you,
and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
The word translated BEYOND
is the Greek word huperekeina (hoop-er-ek'-i-nah) which means
“above those parts” or “still farther.” I have visited The Philippines,
Brazil, The Navajo nation, England, and Israel. I think I have a clearer view
of the word beyond than those less travelled.
Beyond our culture!
If you’ve never been BEYOND your country or your state or even your town, you can’t
imagine the things that are beyond your borders! Language is the first
difference that greets you but that is only the first. Differences in climate
and geography are sometimes stark in contrast with our own. Living conditions
cause the poorest of us to feel guilty because of our waste. Sometimes even the
sounds and smells tell you that you are not at home.
Beyond our care!
What we do not see cannot produce in us any concern.
Lam 3:51
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart
because of all the daughters of my city.
Ezek 3:15
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that
dwelt by the
Beyond our means!
2 Cor 8:1-3
8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of
2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of
their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and
beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
Dear Lord, let me look beyond myself today. AMEN
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