1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

I know dads that will go all out for their kids, they will make time to take them to baseball practices and games, come home from work tired and hungry, but find time to throw the football around.

Paul reminds those in Thessalonica of the way he cared for them, as a good father encourages his son, only he did so for spiritual gain. ” That you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory,” Paul said. We exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children.

We are a family, the people of God, and as such we have a responsibility to one another to ensure that each of us would live up to their potential in Christ, not giving up on one another or growing weary in well doing. That we all would “walk worthy of Lord who calls us into His own kingdom and glory.”

Pastor Doug Hardin