“These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.” – Titus 2:15
Cyrus Comstock was born in December 1765 and lived his life in the Champlain Valley of New York. Cyrus was also an inventor. He designed the "Comstock Wagon" which was the forerunner of the “Buckboard Wagon”. The tall, somber man was a schoolteacher by trade, and his passion to see people learn made him a natural for ministry. He bought a farm in Lewis Center and used it as his home post as he preached in the schoolhouses and remote settlements of the county. He eventually planted and pastored a church in Elizabethtown, New York.
He traveled to every hamlet in Essex County. His passion was to start churches, encourage the saints, and teach people the word of God. He considered everyone in Essex County to be his neighbor and parishioner.
We all need encouragement in this life and to follow Jesus. Today in prayer, praise the Lord for those who have encouraged you during your life and seek to be an encourager to others.
“We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.” – William Barclay
God’s Word: “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.” – Hebrews 3:13
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