1Th 3:9-13 | PNT | STEP | What thanks can we render to God ? How can we be thankful enough?

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

What thanks can we render to God? How can we be thankful enough? Night and day praying exceedingly. An expression of his intense longing to see again a band of young converts so tenderly endeared to him.

And may perfect that which is lacking in your faith. Instruct them more fully in knowledge and duty. So recently heathen, they needed a wise teacher very much. Now God himself . . . direct our way unto you. An appeal that he may be permitted to return to them. The prayer was granted in due time, though not for three or four years (Ac 20:1,2). The Lord make you to increase and abound in love. Whether he may come or not, his prayer is for their increase in love, the greatest of all graces. To the end he may stablish your hearts. Love shed abroad in their hearts would have this effect, and fit them for every duty and trial. He that loveth supremely fulfill the whole law.