Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Thessalonians 1-5.

First I want to note that Paul writes about praying night and day.  I know I say this repeatedly, but every time I read what Paul writes about praying I feel called out.  By that, I mean that I am made aware of my shortcomings when it comes to prayer.  I do not pray nearly enough, and when I do pray, my prayers are not what they should be.  I continue to seek a tool which will do for my prayer life what writing this blog has done for my study of Scripture.  Pray that God shows me how to pray in the way in which He has made it clear to me that He desires.

There was a time when I wondered why Christians spent so much time condemning sexual immorality and not more time condemning greed and the oppression of the poor.  However, as I have been reading through the Bible each year in order to write these blog entries I have come to realize that sexual immorality is probably the thing which Paul writes about, in various ways, more than any other thing, except perhaps the need to love one another.  In fact, Paul’s teaching against sexual immorality often transitions to his teaching that we should love one another.  Paul seems to be telling us that sexual immorality and other forms of impurity function as a kind of counterfeit for true love of others.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.