1Th 5:16 Rejoice evermore.
When you are given a gift you rejoice, yes? But if that gift isn't realized but promised, you might not rejoice completely. You know the gift is there, it's yours beyond a doubt, it's promised to you, but when something is promised to us and it seems as if it'll never truly be ours we don't seem to rejoice quite so much.
The ultimate gift- Salvation.
A gift beyond compare- our Savior's Sacrifice.
The truth is salvation is OURS, and we can know it. This is a reason to rejoice evermore, but we get all caught up in life. We get caught up in life outside of our relationship with Christ. We get caught up in all the problems, the trials, the tribulations that life throws at us and we DON'T give all that to Christ. We don't TRUST. We don't BELIEVE. We don't rejoice in that most amazing of gifts, the ultimate gift, because we let other things interfere.
Just imagine how incredibly happy you'd be if you were given special gifts every day. Imagine it. Every day on your pillow before you go to bed there is a gift. Throughout your day even the worst of days you'd know that gift would be forthcoming. Yet even so you might get so caught up in the cares of this life and you won't even care about that gift waiting. You go in your room walk over to your pillow and just swat that gift to the side, angry, not rejoicing. Yet inside that little gift box is something you will rejoice about and you know it, but those darn CARES OF THIS LIFE get in the way.
Luk 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
We need to rejoice evermore even in our DARKEST of hours, because the DARKEST hour here upon earth cannot compare to the joy in the promise of salvation in the LOVE of our Savior.
1Th 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
Yes, a constant state of prayer. A constant state of connection to our SAVIOR, to our GOD. We need this, we need to be ready always in prayer, because if we are ready then we have that communication that we need. God, our Father is with us in SPIRIT always! We never need to be without that spiritual connection, we break it off ourselves all too often when we should be strengthening it through the grace of our LORD.
1Th 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
In EVERYTHING give thanks. We do NOT know why we are tried the way we are. We can't comprehend the path we are to walk. We just can't fathom WHY we are called to go through the things we are called to go through and YET, we MUST give thanks because we believe God is in control! God is our creator, our Redeemer, and the ONE we worship and live for! If He's not all that, we have no reason to give thanks in everything.
1Th 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
We can quench the Spirit. We are NOT forced to listen to the Holy Spirit. We aren't. The Holy Spirit will not slap us upside the head to get our attention. There is NO forcing even if we want to be forced. We must listen as the Spirit speaks to us in so very many ways.
1Th 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
We cannot despise prophesying, in prophecy we are given proof if ONLY we believe.
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
All through the glory of God! Too often we hold fast to stuff that isn't any good at all! We cling to the bad stuff. We wrap the dirty cares of this life all around us and wallow in them rather than giving them to God and clinging to 'that which is GOOD'.
More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD, our SAVIOR!
In HIS LOVE!
When you are given a gift you rejoice, yes? But if that gift isn't realized but promised, you might not rejoice completely. You know the gift is there, it's yours beyond a doubt, it's promised to you, but when something is promised to us and it seems as if it'll never truly be ours we don't seem to rejoice quite so much.
The ultimate gift- Salvation.
A gift beyond compare- our Savior's Sacrifice.
The truth is salvation is OURS, and we can know it. This is a reason to rejoice evermore, but we get all caught up in life. We get caught up in life outside of our relationship with Christ. We get caught up in all the problems, the trials, the tribulations that life throws at us and we DON'T give all that to Christ. We don't TRUST. We don't BELIEVE. We don't rejoice in that most amazing of gifts, the ultimate gift, because we let other things interfere.
Just imagine how incredibly happy you'd be if you were given special gifts every day. Imagine it. Every day on your pillow before you go to bed there is a gift. Throughout your day even the worst of days you'd know that gift would be forthcoming. Yet even so you might get so caught up in the cares of this life and you won't even care about that gift waiting. You go in your room walk over to your pillow and just swat that gift to the side, angry, not rejoicing. Yet inside that little gift box is something you will rejoice about and you know it, but those darn CARES OF THIS LIFE get in the way.
Luk 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
We need to rejoice evermore even in our DARKEST of hours, because the DARKEST hour here upon earth cannot compare to the joy in the promise of salvation in the LOVE of our Savior.
1Th 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
Yes, a constant state of prayer. A constant state of connection to our SAVIOR, to our GOD. We need this, we need to be ready always in prayer, because if we are ready then we have that communication that we need. God, our Father is with us in SPIRIT always! We never need to be without that spiritual connection, we break it off ourselves all too often when we should be strengthening it through the grace of our LORD.
1Th 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
In EVERYTHING give thanks. We do NOT know why we are tried the way we are. We can't comprehend the path we are to walk. We just can't fathom WHY we are called to go through the things we are called to go through and YET, we MUST give thanks because we believe God is in control! God is our creator, our Redeemer, and the ONE we worship and live for! If He's not all that, we have no reason to give thanks in everything.
1Th 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
We can quench the Spirit. We are NOT forced to listen to the Holy Spirit. We aren't. The Holy Spirit will not slap us upside the head to get our attention. There is NO forcing even if we want to be forced. We must listen as the Spirit speaks to us in so very many ways.
1Th 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
We cannot despise prophesying, in prophecy we are given proof if ONLY we believe.
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
All through the glory of God! Too often we hold fast to stuff that isn't any good at all! We cling to the bad stuff. We wrap the dirty cares of this life all around us and wallow in them rather than giving them to God and clinging to 'that which is GOOD'.
More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD, our SAVIOR!
In HIS LOVE!
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