Our Daily Bread Radio is hosted by Les LambornRead: Romans 12:3-13
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. —1 Peter 4:9
The Greek word translated “hospitality” means “love of strangers.” When Paul speaks of being “given to hospitality” (Rom. 12:13), he is calling us to pursue relationships with people who are in need. It is not an easy task.
Writer Henri Nouwen likens it to reaching out to those we meet on our way through life—people who may be estranged from their culture, country, friends, family, or even from God. Nouwen writes: “Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.”
Whether we inhabit a home, a college dorm, a prison cell, or a military barracks, we can welcome others as a way of showing our love for them and for Christ. Hospitality is making room for people in need.
Reaching out to needy people,
Showing them our love and care, is one way that God can use us to bring hope to their despair. —Sper
Hospitality can fill the emptiness of a lonely heart.
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