Thought for the day May 18th 'Establish your hearts blameless in holiness ' 1 Thessalonians 3 13

The last 2 verses of today’s 3rd chapter in 1st Thessalonians is specially thought provoking. “… may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus …”   Read that again slowly!   Can you imagine your heart being “blameless in holiness?” What is the process by which he will establish our hearts in this way?  One thing Paul is telling us is that this establishing of our hearts is the result of the way we “increase and abound in love for one another.” Love comes, as Paul sees it, in different qualities and quantities!   Paul did not know when the Lord would return, just as we do not, but the expectation has grown increasingly high in recent years.  We take note also that the establishing of our hearts “blameless in holiness” is “before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord…”  It is what the Lord is looking to see at this wondrous time! At the beginning of his Epistle Paul commends them for their “work of faith and labour of love and steadfastness of hope” [1.v.3]   But note what we read in ch. 3 today!  After being encouraged by “the good news” of their “faith and love”  that Timothy [v.6] brought to him, Paul writes, “we pray earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face” – and there is a particular reason for this earnest prayer! It is so that he could then “supply what is lacking in your faith” [v.19] A @Christadelphians Video: ************ This video was produced by the ChristadelphianVideo.org project, arranged and supported by Christadelphians worldwide. ** ChristadelphianVideo.org ** Main site: https://cdvideo.org/ NEW ON CHRISTADELPHIANVIDEO.ORG! You can follow us online at some of our other services.. #1 Our Main site... https://cdvideo.org #2 Our podcast on Podbean... https://cdvideo.org/spotify #3 Our podcast on Apple...https://cdvideo.org/podcast-apple #4 Our podcast on Anchor...https://cdvideo.org/truth-talk #5 Our facebook...https://facebook.com/OpenBibles #6 Our Whats App... https://cdvideo.org/WhatsApp #7 Our Instagram... https://cdvideo.org/Instagram #8 Our X... https://cdvideo.org/x #9 Our YouTube Channel... https://cdvideo.org/@christadelphians #10 Our Audio site Scripturescribe.com... https://cdvideo.org/mp3 #11 https://youtube.com/@christadelphians?sub_confirmation=1 #12 Our Substack https://thebiblestandard.substack.com/ ** Podcasts: Podcast on Podbean...https://cdvideo.org/podbean Podcast on Apple........https://cdvideo.org/podcast-apple Podcast on Spotify......https://cdvideo.org/spotify ** Social Media: Facebook/openbibles Whats App... https://cdvideo.org/WhatsApp Free group...Shared links and comments on the daily reading, ( also links to advance viewing on many videos before public release) Instagram... https://cdvideo.org/Instagram X... https://cdvideo.org/x YouTube Channel... https://cdvideo.org/@christadelphians Our Substack - https://thebiblestandard.substack.com/ ** Other resources: https://cdvideo.org/www (A hour hour presentation about ChristadelphianVideo.org) https://cdvideo.org/exhorts (Over 1000 video exhortations many including the emblems (Full service)) https://cdvideo.org/compare-expound (A free quarterly digital magazine published for the discerning and inquiring mind.) https://cdvideo.org/wss (What saith Scripture resource centre, verse trails, videos, on 1st principle subjects.) Where possible, each section includes our suggested video presentations as well as articles and links on the various topics. linktr.ee/cdvideo A page with all our links. ** Watch / read / Listen to other thoughts for the day on our site here https://christadelphianvideo.org/tftd/ #Christadelphianvideo #thebiblechannel #christadelphianstalk #Christadelphians #bible #openbible #Gospeltruth #gospel #Christadelphian #truth #podcast #discoverthebible #cdvideo