Wait with An Open Heart

2 Thessalonians 3:5 

"And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,  

and into the patient waiting for Christ." 

    Nowhere is Paul's humility more clear to see. And we see that Paul, having threw himself on their hearts must have open the hearts even to his opponents to, because it is very difficult to dislike a man who asks you to pray for him. Amen!
     But in spite of his love for and trust in men Paul was a person who accepted a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly. Now that is a lesson we can take and use from Paul.
    The faith, he said, is not for everyone. We can be certain that he said it not cynically but sorrowfully. Once again we see the tremendous responsibility of free-will. We can use it to open our hearts and we can use it to shut them. Faith's appeal is not selective, it goes out to every man; but the heart of man can refuse to respond.
    In the last verse of this passage we see what we might call the inward and the outward characteristics of the Christian. The inward characteristic is the awareness of the love of God, the deep awareness that we cannot drift beyond His care, the sense that the everlasting arms are underneath us. One of the basic needs of life is security and we find that need met in the unchanging love of God.
    The outward characteristic is the endurance which Christ can give. We live in a world where there are more nervous breakdowns than at any time in history. It is a sign that more and more people have the feeling that they cannot cope with life. The outward characteristic of the Christian is that when others break he stands erect and when others collapse he shoulders his burden and goes on. With the love of God in his heart and the strength of Christ in his life a man can face anything. 
Amen!

Reading: (2 Thess. 3:1-5)
Ref: (HG SB; DSB)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry