Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Oct 27, 2024, 2:14 AM
Passage Read: 2 Thessalonians 2-3
Meditation Verse: 2:15
Thought
Paul, in effect says that the only defense against the deluding influence coming on the world to prepare the way for the Antichrist is to hold fast to the traditions and teachings that he spoke or wrote to them. The Antichrist cannot come until the one holding him back is taken out of the way. But before that happens, God is going to send a deluding influence on all people who did not receive a love of the Truth, God's truth. The Church needs to hold fast to Scripture's teachings especially in this age when men refuse to believe it.
Oct 7, 2023, 7:37 AM
Passage Read: 2 Thessalonians 2-3
Meditation Verses: 3:7-9
Thought
This is a high bar. To work night and day, both to set an example and to provide for their own needs, even while Macedonian churches were sending gifts to aid them, that's exhausting. Did they take turns? He says they were not idle. Of course, if everyone else was working during the day, there would be few people to teach. If he preached in the marketplace during the day, he would mainly be reaching slaves and merchants and people who had no slaves to do their shopping.