This morning I started to study 1 Thessalonians. I love reading Paul's letters. They are always encouraging and convicting. I only read chapter one today, but it was just what I needed. It gave me some affirmation and a realization of how truly blessed I am.
I grew up in a Christian home and in a very solid church. That is what I have known my whole entire life. I have always had my parents as role models. Besides them my youth pastor became a great mentor and friend. He then introduced me to another pastor who took me under his wing. There has never been a time in my life when I have not had a Godly example to follow.
Paul, in his letter to the Thessalonians commends them for their faith. He praises them for following his example and then living their life as an example for others. I believe he truly understood the Christian life. It is about learning to live like Christ through the example of others, and then taking on that same role for others. Paul's example would have been deemed of little value by the churches if they ignored it.
All of my mentors have played large roles in my development into an adult and in my Christian walk. I hope that each day I look more and more like Christ and less like myself. There would be no greater compliment to those that showed me the way.
"And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia."-1 Thessalonians 1:6-7
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