We have been doing a reality check regarding how we are coping with the normal challenges of life based on 1st Thessalonians 4:1-12. We studied what God wants to see in our behavior, sexually, socially, spiritually and vocationally.
The challenge, even if you are doing OK, is to “do this more and more.” How do you do this? Two verses in this section that we have not considered yet will help us here. Let me read for you verses 9-10, “Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.”