2 Corinthians 8:24; Proof of Your Love

2 Corinthians 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

The collection that will be sent to Jerusalem will go a long way to help the brethren there. It was a blessed opportunity to exercise the stewardship entrusted of the Lord to them in Corinth. The Apostle Paul, their spiritual mentor, was at hand to guide them towards this grace of giving.

What a blessed testimony of God’s love and His enabling. Phillips explains well the verse, “So do let them, and all the Churches, see how genuine is your love, and justify all the nice things we have said about you!”

When a preacher announced his subject, “The Eleventh Commandment,” some thought him dangerously innovative to attempt a postscript to the time-honoured, all-inclusive Decalogue. Then he read his text: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have loved one to another.” (John 13:34-35)¹

Amen.

¹Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations: Signs of the Times.