[Originally posted in a WhatsApp group (KD) as a daily reading update (reflection) from each chapter of the Bible]
2 THESSALONIANS 1:10
"When He comes, in that Day,
to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe,
because our testimony among you was believed."
A Messi fan doesn't like to be in
the stadium of Ronaldo fans, and vice versa. We enjoy the company of
like-minded people. Imagine a world of only like-minded people, how wonderful
will it be! Might I suggest more wildly? Think of the coming of the Marriage Supper
of the Lamb! Everyone's a Believer. No fighting, no argument, no ill-treatment,
no sin, nothing evil!
Everyone will give Jesus the glory
He deserves. Everyone will admire Him, and get to receive a crown from Him. I
am sure, that's better than Messi or Ronaldo signing an autograph for us. 😉
The world may continue to mock my
Lord and our Christian ethics, but one day, mockery will cease, and we will
have our reign! I long for that day!
And of course, I long for other
non-believers to admire my Lord too from this present life.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:10-12
"And with all unrighteous
deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who
did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Is it not wonderful that Satan's
deception is only over the non-believers? Satan has no power over us. Our
faith, our hope, and our salvation is established by God. Even the deception of
Satan is allowed by God so that the wicked people can seal their own
destruction.
I don't need to worry whether my
faith will fall or not when Anti-Christ comes because the coming of the Anti-Christ
is for the deception of unbelievers that they may perish in the coming wrath of
God; the coming of Jesus-Christ is for the salvation of believers from the
tribulation and coming wrath of God.
2 THESSALONIANS 3:15
“Yet do not count him as an enemy,
but admonish him as a brother."
How difficult it is to deal with an
unrepentant brother without giving in to hatred. I have seen Christian leaders
ex-communicating others in the name of biblical disciplines, not in love but in
hate. When all efforts fail, it often ends up as an enemy. Hating the person
once loved! I can see that tendency even in my own heart.
O Lord, to speak ill of
none, to hate nobody, cause my heart to thrive in Your Love, Amen!