8-15-10 Sunday, 6:22 am Springfield, raining, 71 degrees.
The morning always seems to come too early on Sunday, and the minutes fly by as I focus and prepare for the events of the day. I have that familiar feeling of being almost ready, but not quite. We also have a memorial service this afternoon, a funeral on Tuesday, and a member who is in the very last stages of her battle with cancer.
II Thes 2:1-13
“As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him…” The apostle Paul is writing a second letter to the church at Thessalonica. In 3:6-15 he gives instruction about how to live – labor and toil and not in idleness. Apparently some believers had misinterpreted what he taught about the Lord’s second coming and were simply waiting around for it, idle. It is important for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord to constantly be developing in fruitfulness.
Guide me today, most Holy Lord, as I look for your coming, and live diligently, fruitfully, working hard during these days “in between” your first and second coming. I pray especially for your anointing as I teach from your word about your Name, above all names, and about your coming and the end of time.
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