We had a good weekend away in our motorhome recently, meeting with other members of the Good News Vanners Club. These gatherings are held every few weeks, in different venues around our area, and it is a great time of fellowship for us all. Coming as we do from various churches, we don’t get a chance to meet with these folk anywhere else.

     We have great times of singing the good old favourite hymns which we grew up with (as you might guess, we are all in the older age bracket!), and share testimonies of what the Lord has done for us, both recently, and in times past. In this way we can encourage each other and build each other up as well as enjoy each other’s company.

      It is not for nothing that we are told to “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as some do, but to exhort and encourage one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)” After all, we are all in the family of God, and just as it grieves us as parents to see our children at odds with each other, so it must grieve the heart of God to see His children not able to get along with each other…surely we can agree to disagree amicably on points we don’t see eye to eye about!  So we are the ones who miss out in the long run, if we absent ourselves from others in the family of God.     Just as a coal gets cold on its own away from the fire, so those who stay away from fellowshipping with others will gradually grow cold, especially if it is because of some resentment of others on our part!

     So the moral of the story is…keep fellowshipping with others, read the Word daily and grow in the Lord!