Daily Devotional--8/10/2010

Philippians 2:25-30

²⁵But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs. ²⁶For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill. ²⁷Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety. ²⁹Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him, ³⁰because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help you could not give me.

Epaphroditus was a man whose Christian relationships were strong. He took the work of the ministry seriously and with great value.

• What was his relationship with Paul? (verse 25)
• What was his relationship with the Philippian church? (verses 25-26)Who is an Epaphroditus in your life?
• Are you an Epaphroditus in someone else’s life?