In this most personal of letters from the Apostle Paul, he bears his heart of love to these Thessalonians. In doing so, he affirms these believers as being a community of faith, love and hope. He also reminds them of the calling of God to be a community of shared suffering. Lord willing, we will learn the inevitability of suffering, the way we are to minister to one another in suffering, and the benefits we gain from suffering as Christians. .
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
New Testament
To maintain a fervent first love for the Lord Jesus, we must diligently not look at ourselves and our efforts to love Him but look constantly toward Him and the many displays of His first love to us.
Sometimes we may easily miss an important truth in a section of scripture because we don’t take time to go beyond the obvious to the not so obvious. One of those precious truths not to be missed is found in today’s scripture with just three words.
The Christian life is one of constant conflict between desire to please the Lord by obedience and falling short in practice of pleasing the Lord. Aren’t we glad the Lord loves us anyway?
Where is your satisfaction? We are going to seek it in something or someone. We are either going to pursue it in the many pleasures of this world and human relationships, or in a holy relationship with the living God.
MATTHEW 25:20-23: And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’…