To Be Edified

1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

When you hear the word edify or build-up, you instantly know that something is required of you.
Time and effort are required to edify and build others.
Part of the fruit of goodness is to use your words to lift up another.
Our words can strengthen and develop others.
We don’t know the day or time of Jesus’ return but we know He is returning.
While we wait on Him, the Bible encourages us to:
- To live in His light
- To be sober and alert
- To live with self control
- To put on faith
- To wear love as a breastplate
- And to have hope of salvation as our helmet
As we do these things, we will be able to encourage, edify and build one another.
We will demonstrate His love and hope to those in need.
And they will be built up and ready for His appearing because we will have deposited Him into their hearts.
The fruit of goodness will cause us to love one another as He has loved us, and to show them the kindness He has shown us.

Are you edifying others?