New Testament: 1Th 1.9–10

To read the Bible in a year, read First Thessalonians 1 on October 13, In the year of our Lord Christ 2024

By Don Ruhl 

The conversion of the Thessalonians was so magnificent that people from all over heard about it, and told Paul and his friends about it, although he had been involved in it: “For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you 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 who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1.9–10). 

The news about the Thessalonians in particular was this: 

• How they turned to God from idols 
• How they served the living and true God 
• How they waited for God’s Son from heaven 

Those things showed and paralleled what Paul mentioned in verse 3: 

• Their work of faith (turning to God from idols) 
• Their labor of love (serving the true and living God) 
• Their patience of hope (waiting for God’s Son from Heaven)

Questions from today’s reading and devotional: 

• In First Corinthians 13.13, Paul said that love is greater than faith and hope. Why is that the case? 
• What is your ultimate hope? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com