Fragment: Turning to God

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2004

• 1 min. read • grade level: 7

“Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:9-10⁹For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; ¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:9‑10)).

Paul preached Christ to the idol-worshipping Thessalonians, but we are not told that he preached against their idols. No, that would have been worse than useless. Once their hearts were brought by the Holy Spirit into occupation with the Son of God, their idols were let go. When once a believer’s heart gets engaged with Christ, all else is displaced or distanced in proportion as Christ has His true place there. He is enough the mind and heart to fill.

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