Read Your Bible: Reason #3 – God’s Word works in your heart.

What happened in Thessalonica was remarkable.  Paul spent a little over three weeks there proclaiming the Gospel.  Soon after his third week, there was a good number of believers in the city growing in the Word.  But much more work needed to be done.  Work Paul was not able to do.  Shortly after his third week, a mob rose up against Paul to kill him.  He and his companions had to escape in the middle of the night.

What is remarkable about this story is that Paul writes to this group a year later and they were still a thriving local church body.  They did not allow violent threats or the loss of the church planting evangelist deter them from faith.  In fact they had grown to be an example all throughout the region of a growing faithful church.  Even though Paul left, God continued to work and the church thrived. 

Paul gives the explanation for this in his letter to them. 

“For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

God’s people continued to grow and thrive because God’s Word that began its work in them through Paul’s preaching continued to work in them.  God’s Word continued to work.

Are you allowing God to work in your heart on a daily basis through His Word?  If you are not then work needs to be done today.  We all need work done in our hearts.  We all are a work in progress. 

There are roads in NYC that have been under construction for over ten years.  That is a problem.  A worse problem still is that there is at least one spot that I rarely see someone working on them.  That is inexcusable.  What about the construction crew of your inner person?  Are you allowing God to work through His Word?  If you are not in His Word then work is not being done.  Let Him Work today – Read God’s Word!

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