Watered With Care

16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

Philippians Letter 4:16-18

Even the church there had abundance of needs. I mean, who does not being not alone in this world. Though a church that can keep on in sending is a rare gift indeed. It would have been a gift certainly for that is what these had happened to be. Though Paul or whoever the writer there at the moment, whether in bondage or chains or perhaps was writing such a letter on behalf of another. Perhaps even he had written prior to his coming to know there the Lord. Which fact in and of itself makes this all the more precious indeed. Such suppositions surely are not as facts yet merely. That is to say they are as much as supposed here that day. Thessalonica though is sight for sore eyes which might have been as far off from Philippians to whom it is that these had been written. Though, in the denying it is this gift that keeps the church there from dying. Which makes it all the more a luxury surely that church had continued to abound for the abundance of needs. Sometimes there are times in this life where you cannot touch as many as you yet had hoped to consider much less still to remember. This little church though little itself was trying in every way to remember. This was done so that the Lord had not suffered in need and neither the work of his laborers wherever these be. Still with one in the ground, or perhaps topside still much in prison there came forth his laborers rather. The gift then such as these were meant to harvest even the fruit of the loins. Paul here had enough for the present having received of his labor and was well on his way to becoming his sons. That is if the Father above had of been receiving him still. The fruit though it is spoken comes of desires brought forth in the matter. What he is trying to say that the Father above be exalted and that these still be made into sons. For enough to be meant there the church not though perhaps in the way of material goods. Rather that himself had of offered rather than the church and their fellowship on up to him, perhaps as Covenant law had commanded however much as it was maybe misguided. Still that these would have labored for the praise of his glory.