Hospitality: Our Faith In Action...

"Use hospitality one to another without grudging."
                                           1Peter 4:9
Our home is literally a gateway to Christ. You might doubt this, but every person that steps into your home should instantly feel the love and the peace that God can only provide. Our home should be a place where we encounter the Lord day by day, night by night, whether it's during the day or late at night. God's perfume should be penetrated in your home that the scent can be transferred to every individual that walk in. People should be able to feel the difference in the atmosphere but also in our attitude.


I'm referring to the way we greet people when they come in very inconvenient times. Let's face it, I think most of us have experienced the unexpected visitor when we are sick, busy or simply when our home is a mess. Our first reaction, "oh why didn't they tell me they were coming?!" How does this affect our hospitality to our guests that haven't accepted Christ? Does that first impression in our attitude lead them towards Christ or discourages them to even think about it?


How does Jesus greet us when we cry out for Him late at night? When no one else is willing to hear us? In a way people out there are in desperate need and I believe our hospitality is essential in the future of the lost. 


In moments when unexpected visitors arrive, lets learn to put ourselves aside and our agenda aside, and His heart will grow in us more and more...