Morning Devotional June 25, 2025

 

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

“1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”

 

So many of God’s people are worried about the coming of the Antichrist or the coming of the time of Great Tribulation. But God gives His people comfort concerning these matters. We are instructed by God Himself to watch for the coming of the Son of God in the clouds as He comes as the Bridegroom to call His bride and her family out of the world and to begin preparing for the wedding. We are told to comfort ourselves and to edify one another with these words. For the child of God, the end of days is nothing to fear but rather a time to look forward to and to rejoice in. Yet there are those fearmongers out there who use scare tactics to persuade the unsaved of this world to make a false profession based on fear of evil rather than the fear of God. These false prophets keep many of God’s own people bound in fear of the things of this old world while neglecting to preach of the Great Comforter our Lord promised.

 

Praise ye the Lord!!!