When the human heart is healed by hospitality the angels are
entertained and in our restoration they rejoice. The hospitable life of Hebrews
is found in mutual love expressed by loving the stranger, which is the literal
meaning of the Greek. It means we remember those in prison as if we were in
their place. It means one’s own being is tortured by the thought of another’s
body violated, as well as one’s own soul grieving for the soul of the
one who devises and inflicts pain upon another. Honoring marriage, resisting
the lure of wealth, contentment within one’s self, being thankful for faithful
leaders, doing good and sharing what you have are all expressions of the
hospitable life in which the angels rejoice and God is pleased. So entertaining
angels unaware is not a chance encounter with a cherub, but a life encountered
and changed by Jesus, the same yesterday, today and always.
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