The Day of the LORD: This is for our encouragement!
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 VIP Verse 8! I have provided the section in its entirety below for context.
8 “But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.”
What I want to highlight is that in the watching, we are instructed to be SOBER while wearing the breastplate of FAITH and LOVE and the helmet which is HOPE of salvation.
Sound familiar?
1 Corinthians 13:13 “So now Faith, Hope, and Love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.”
So! We are diligent, sober-minded, humble, contrite and trembling at HIS WORD AND!
And watching and learning and sharing…in Love. I just saw this tonight as it relates to The Day of the LORD!
GOD bless you as you watch and lovingly share CHRIST and HIS WORD with all!
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the LORD will come like a thief in the night.
3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
8 “But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.”
9 For GOD has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, 10 WHO died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with HIM.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing!”
Amen and amen!
2CJC 