Today's letter in the letter a day A-to-Z Challenge is D. I've been having a bit of a rough day already so I'm needing something encouraging. What encouragement can we get from the letter D?
I admit I had to think about this for a bit, which is probably why this post is a bit late. Words that immediately popped into my head were devil, diety, divine. . .
And then I stumbled across this word "diakonos". This is the Greek word meaning servant or minister. This is what D is for. We are to be a servant to each other and minister eachother in our growing faith. I looked up the word in an online concordance(Strong's Concordance) and this is what I found:
diakonos: a servant,
minister
Original Word: διάκονος, οῦ, ὁ, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: diakonos
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak'-on-os)
Short Definition: a waiter, servant, administrator
Definition: a waiter, servant; then of any one who performs any service, an administrator.
I think this describes who we are supposed to be as a fellow Christian very well. We are to be a servant to others to show the love of Christ through us. Pin It Now!
In other words: Love thy neighbor. If you love another person, you understand their weekness and their need.
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