DAILY READINGS: Deut. 22 to 23:8; Joel 3; Luke 12:22-40
The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another,
and toward all men, even as we do toward you. 1 Thess. 3:12
Paul’s concern is that the believers should make progress spiritually.
It is easy to become complacent and to regard our present level of
maturity as satisfactory. How needful, then, is the call to “increase
and abound in love”! In 1 Thessalonians 4:1 the appeal is to “abound
more and more”. However we may have progressed in the past, as
our school reports used to say, there is always room for improvement!
—George Hall
I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith and love, and every grace;
Might more of His salvation know
And seek, more earnestly, His face —John Newton