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Blessed Assurance

December 12th, 2015 · No Comments

1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 (New Living Translation)

4 We know, dear brothers and sisters, that God loves you and has chosen you to be his own people. 5 For when we brought you the Good News, it was not only with words but also with power, for the Holy Spirit gave you full assurance that what we said was true. And you know of our concern for you from the way we lived when we were with you.

There is much more here than I can address. It seems that is often the case, so let’s discuss a few things.

God loves some people and has chosen some to be His. Who are these people? Does this apply just to those in Thessalonica at the time? Let’s answer yes for now. What a blessing to those people who received this letter. God chose them; God blessed them.

The next verse assures them of well being. The Holy Spirit assured them that the things Paul said were true. What a blessing. I don’t know that I can describe the magnitude of that.

Then to the title of the post. Fanny J. Crosby wrote a poem that became a song with this title. I always liked that song. It was soothing and held promise. Whatever was happening at the moment was not the end. There is an assurance of something beyond.

Thank you God for the letter to the Thessalonians and for people like Crosby through the ages who have praised you in song.

Tags: 1 Thessalonians · New Testament

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