“Use hospitality one to another
without grudging.”
1 Peter 4:9
A few years ago I got to feeling “used” by my brethren. We have a lot of company, both overnight and as meal guests, and I got to feeling as though I was just providing free food and lodging for folks who wanted a holiday. I was almost “burned out” on entertaining. But the Lord knew how to encourage me in serving Himself! Over the course of a few months, three different women came and told me how much they had enjoyed being in our home when they were children. The Lord knew that I needed a word of encouragement, but that praise would probably make me proud, so many years later He used the memories from the ladies’ childhoods to give a word that would encourage me to keep on while not puffing me up. One told me that I had taught her to make scrambled eggs. There is nothing about scrambled eggs that makes a cook pat herself on the back, but the warm memories were a boost to me to use hospitality without grudging (1 Pet. 4:9).