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1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Ever been down or know somebody who is "walking through it?" The natural reaction is to lend comfort and compassion - often taking the form of reassurance in everything being OK. That is good, in some limited occasions, but the Bible defines encouragement in these terms:  Keep fighting!

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

In this excellent article by Trevin Wax, he explores encouragement for the aging (I am a resident of that descriptor - my body reminds me, daily, that I am no longer among the young). You can read it all by clicking --> here <--

He reminds us of the words of Dietrich Bonhoehoffer - whose words are perfectly timed for this season of discipleship emphasis that Sojourn Church is walking through:

The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth. He needs his brother as a bearer and proclaimer of the divine word of salvation. He needs his brother solely because of Jesus Christ. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother’s is sure.