Monday, November 30 Keep encouraging one another and building one another up, just as you are in fact doing.​—1 Thess. 5:11.

[Áine]

Monday, November 30

Keep encouraging one another and building one another up, just as you are in fact doing.—1 Thess. 5:11.

 

It would be an error on our part if we believed that we cannot be encouraging because we are not particularly communicative. It does not take much to be a source of encouragement—perhaps no more than a warm smile when greeting someone. If there is no smile in return, it could mean that there is a problem, and just listening to the other person may bring comfort. (Jas. 1:19) We all can be encouraging to a brother or a sister who is in need of comfort. King Solomon wrote: “A word spoken at the right time—how good it is! A cheerful glance makes the heart rejoice; a good report invigorates the bones.” (Prov. 15:23, 30, ftn.) Paul shows that even singing a Kingdom song together can be a source of encouragement. (Acts 16:25; Col. 3:16) Mutual encouragement will become more and more important as we see Jehovah’s day “drawing near.”—Heb. 10:25. w18.04 23 ¶16; 24 ¶18-19

[Alexa]

Just a smile 

[daydream]

 

My present non English congregation likes to commend others for their well arranged dressing. It’s nice to get commendation from fellow sisters. I guess brothers feel awkward about doing to same to fellow believers. I can understand their feelings

 

1 Tim 2:9. Likewise, the women should adorn themselves in appropriate dress, with modesty and soundness of mind, not with styles of hair braiding and gold or pearls or very expensive clothing, 10 but in the way that is proper for women professing devotion to God, namely, through good works.,

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/library/r1/lp-e/all-publications/awake/awake-1999/february-8

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That does not mean dressing prudishly but, rather, in a way that is “well-arranged” and that reflects “soundness of mind.” (1 Timothy 2:9, 10) Often, this simply means showing restraint, a quality the magazine Working Woman links to good taste and elegance. As a good rule of thumb, never allow your clothes to enter the room first, to overwhelm others. Working Woman says: “Dress . . . so that people can look past your clothes and see your merits as an individual.”

 

 

Edited November 30, 2020 by Mclove