Be Still And Know

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 We always thank God for all of you and pray for you constantly. As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul had great affection for the Christians in what we would now call northern Greece. He had spent time with them and knew them well. He therefore knew that they weren’t perfect and, in this letter, went on to spell out some very specific concerns that he had about the way in which they were living. However, what I love about these opening verses is that he came up with a beautiful list of the ways in which his life was blessed by them. It’s so easy to focus on the problems of life. We can probably all identify people who wind us up, and who are a pain to us. We can think of their annoying habits and the way in which they make our life so much harder than it needs to be. I suspect that Paul could have come up with such a list about the people in Thessalonica, b