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“May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.” 2 Thessalonians 3:5

This is a very meaningful wish or prayer of Paul the apostle for the fellow believers of Thessalonica. Here the emphasis is on Love and Perseverance. Love of God is the subject we always focus on and pray for the grace to experience it. We see God’s amazing love by the act of giving his only begotten son for us. But what is Perseverance and how Jesus’s Perseverance should impact our lives. The Word Perseverance has a deep meaning. It means “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition”The perseverance of Jesus was unexplainable. During the time when he got suffered on the cross, the blames he got from this world  and all the problems he faced while on earth, we can see his perseverance. As human beings we can’t even imagine how he went through all these sufferings. Still he never failed, he won the cross and attained his goal set by his father GOD. . So when Paul says to direct your heart towards Christ’s perseverance, what is he pointing to? In this world, we go through lot of sufferings. If it is in the form of an illness or death of a loved one for someone, it can be financial problems or marriage problems for others. We get hurt by others harsh words, blames can deeply wound our minds. We often faces situations where we wonder why this happened to me. Difficulties, failures and oppositions are meant to be there in this earthly life. But don’t give up, direct our hearts to Christ’s perseverance and God’s love. It is not that easy to ignore those who argue with us, or not to blame the situations that is not right according to our opinion. Sometimes we really want to change ourselves, so instead of gushing our anger through our mouth to those people who hurt us, we try to swallow everything. I often used to believe if I don’t say anything loud, its ok. But remember, our God is not just seeing you from outside, but he knows your thoughts before we think them (Psalms 137:2). So when we think something bad and do eye rolling towards the person who hurts us, remember God is looking into your hearts. He is asking us to forgive and be respectful. So let’s pray that God will direct our hearts to His love and help us to remember the perseverance of Jesus, when we experience unfair situations, when we get hurt with harsh words and when we get blamed for unexpected things. Lets not focus on the troubles of this world, but direct our thoughts only towards the love and perseverance that we see upon the cross.              


  


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