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“But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ” (2 Thessalonians 3:5 JND).
When we talk about the Lord’s coming, we are sometimes told to be patient in waiting for Him to come. When we are going through a difficult world, it is quite normal for us to want the Lord to come and take us home. We will look at one of those verses tomorrow. But today we see a little different thought that perhaps we have not considered before.
Here in today’s verse it is the Apostle Paul’s wish that the hearts of the Thessalonian believers be directed into the love of God, and into the “patience of the Christ.” What does this mean? I would suggest that it means HE, our Lord Jesus Christ, is waiting for us, and is more anxious to have us with Him than we are to be with Him. If we are waiting patiently, He too is waiting patiently, for He wants us there with Him. How wonderful it is to see things from God’s side, and not only from our own point of view! We can want the Lord to come for selfish reasons, but God wants us to think of things from His side too, and to realize how much His beloved Son wants us to come and be with Him.
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