In his pastoral epistle to Timothy, Paul listed the conditions that could make a widow enjoy official support from the church. These conditions are captured in these two verses – “Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.” I Timothy 5:9-10 NKJV. Prominent among these is hospitality. From our text, we discover that hospitality is not restricted to widows alone, it is what all the saints are admonished to do.

Hospitality has both temporal and eternal rewards…Whatever good deed is done in the name of the Lord goes into our account in heaven and multiplies our reward ultimately.

Hospitality has both temporal and eternal rewards. Abraham enjoyed a private disclosure of God’s plan in Sodom because of entertaining the heavenly visitors. Second Kings Chapter 4 records a woman’s display of hospitality towards the prophet, Elisha. She began by giving food to the prophet each time he passed by. She later prevailed on her husband to make a guest chamber for him. Elisha was so impressed that she wanted to give her a referral to the king or captain of the guard. Being a woman of means, she needed neither of the contacts. Her reward came where there had been a vacuum in her life. Her hospitality became her key to motherhood. It is needful to add that Bema judgment will largely be based on this. Christ will reward who, by proxy, has fed and sheltered Him. Whatever good deed is done in the name of the Lord goes into our account in heaven and multiplies our reward ultimately.