Good Morning!
Everyone is up and ready to start the work/school week! My son only has two days and an hour left before summer vacation! Needless to say, he is excited. How about you? Are you excited about summer? I am!
Lisa's tweet: LMRMinistries: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 ~ Paul is telling the church about Christ's return (chapter 4). You never know when, so live every day like it could be today!
This is a powerful passage and packed full of encouragement for us as sisters and brothers in Christ. I love the imagery in verses 1 thru 3 as it describes Jesus return - like a thief in the night or as labor pains for a pregnant woman. We don't know the time or day, but we know it will happen and we will be ready! Praise the Lord!
Verse 6 is very important - we are sons and daughters of the Light and therefore "be alert and self-controlled". As Lisa wrote this morning, we need to be ready since we don't know when, but be alert and live each day as if it was today!
Look at verse 8: "But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet." God has given us the tools and the encouragement we need to be ready when He returns. As He continues in verse 9 and 10, we have been appointed to receive salvation through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He died for us so that we might live together with Him!
What a promise! What encouragement to us! We will live with Him forever!
Verse 11 is more of a command/request of us: "Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." Are we? I hope and pray that I am an encouragement to you, my sisters and that I am helping to build you up in your Christian walk. You are to me and I am so very thankful for your friendship and your love.
Have a wonderful day and know that today could be the day and I will see you in Heaven for eternity! Be encouraged and SHINE for HIM in all that you do today!
Love y'all!
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