Mom

A lot of my friends call me “mom”.

 

 

A couple days ago I was reading through Hebrews 10, and I read this statement,

 “And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”

 What stood out to me was, “be concerned with one another”, but I wasn’t sure why.

So I went on with my day as normal.

This morning, I was on the phone with my mom, and I was sharing with her about this prayer meeting I went to last night, and how someone had mentioned that if you struggled with a sin issue, to find someone to hold you accountable, etc.

 I had begun to tell her about how when I was dealing with something, how no one that I asked to hold me accountable really cared. And a lot of the people, who I had told about it, were struggling themselves. And because of this, it just was kind of ignored as if it wasn’t happening, when it was.

In the middle of talking to her, the Holy Spirit reminded me of that scripture.

Be concerned with one another.

Be CONCERNED.

Now, I’m not talking about concerned as in to worry,

but in the biblical meaning of concern:

 1) to perceive, remark, observe, understand

 2) to consider attentively, fix one's eyes or mind upon

 To care for someone’s well being

 It clicked.

When I was always called “mom” with my friends, it was because I was concerned.

Now don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t always concerned.

But when one of my friends got a new boyfriend, came home late, or did things that made me feel weird, I was concerned.

 One of the Greek translations for concerned, is to be of irritation. I know sometimes we don’t like when people are concerned. Because sometimes it feels like they’re just trying to control us, and there are obviously cases where that’s true, too.

You should always be careful who you allow to speak into your life.

 But we all know that there are those people, who when they say something, we brush it off on the outside, but underneath it shakes us to our core because we know it’s true.

I think that’s why a lot of Christians still struggle with sin cycles.

One because of the lack of renewed minds, and two because of the lack of concern.

 Sometimes we are so concerned with our own lives that we forget to look around and be concerned with those around us.

 When we are concerned, we promote love and good works.

We can’t forget to be concerned.