Today's Devotion: 2 Thessalonians 3 (New International Version)
May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

We must remember that the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians was written to correct problems in the church, specifically believers who, thinking that the last days were imminent, were giving up and neglecting their families and their work. Here Paul is cautioning them against being idle. While we need to be ready for the Second Coming, we should not be idle. We need to remember God's love and Christ's perseverance and do the same. No matter what, we need to love the Lord our God with all of our being, as well as our neighbor.

Today's Comments: Another semester at Talbot is over. Summer school starts the week after next. I will be starting a Christian ethics class. That will be interesting. I hope that my work with both the Old and New Testaments will help me. One thing that I can be sure of is that I am not going to be idle, like those Thessalonians were. Unfortunately, I know too many people who sit back and let the world pass them by. As Christians, our job is to be a light to the world. So, whatever we do, we can't let the light burn out, can we?