Bible Reading May 14th 1 Thessalonians Ch. 1

Today's reading comes from 1st Thessalonians Ch 1. This letter from Paul, Silas, Timothy reminds me of the ultimate encouragement card to give someone. In this opening to the book, the autors give praise to the people for what they have done, but also giving glory to God for allowing it to happen. In one of the verses it makes me jealous of the abundance of love the people of Thessalonica have for God. 

Verses 1:8-10 say it amazingly, "And now the word of the Lord is ringing out from you to people everywhere, even beyond Macedonia and Achaia, for wherever we go we find people telling us about your faith in God. We don't need to tell them about it, for they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away form idols to serve the living and true God. And they speak of ow you are looking forward to the coming of God's Son from Heaven-Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. He is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgement" (NLT).

It makes me think of how little I thank other people for being a beacon of God's light instead of "hiding it under their bed". I feel like we need to let people know more often about the amazing things they do for us everyday and never get recognized for it. Now, I know a lot of people tat do things solely out of the kindness of their heart, but sometimes it is nice to hear a word of encouragement every once in a while for doing a good job on something. Besides, we are all in this together, aren't we??