BLESSINGS IN GUIDANCE

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first letter to the people in the church at Thessalonica, it being his first letter of encouragement and guidance to any church, he encouraged them in love, to make sure that they loved everyone in the church and also people outside of the church.  In that letter he was concerned about the people using their bodies impurely but instead he wanted them to be consecrated to Me with honor.  Also he warned them about the demonic spirit of lust, admonishing them not to use their bodies to fulfill lust in any area, spiritually, bodily or mentally.  He told them that the heathen used their bodies in many ways, their being ignorant of Me and having no knowledge of My will.   He warned them against sexual vice, shrinking from it completely.  (II Thessalonians 4:3-10)  He also warned against defrauding anyone in lust for money or goods that belong to someone.  The demon of lust has many faces and when someone yields to its temptation in one area they open themselves up for yielding to lust in other ways also.  Paul repeated that I have not called My children to impurity and instead to dedicate yourselves to Me spirit, soul and body. 
    Paul encouraged the people again in the church to display My love to everyone.   He wrote that they were already known as excelling in loving other people and he encouraged them to excel in love even more and more.  In his exhortation on daily living, Paul advised the people in the church to live quietly and peacefully with everyone, to mind their own affairs, to work with their hands as he already had charged them to do. 
   Then he wrote advising them about people in the church who had died, telling the members not to grieve like the rest of the people grieve who have no hope beyond the grave.  He reasoned with them that since Jesus Christ rose from the dead, that they and their fellow believers would also rise to meet Him in the sir, since Jesus, Himself, would descend from heaven with a loud cry and the blast of My trumpet, knowing that the people who are already asleep in death will rise first.   He assured them that the people who are alive in the earth whose bodies die will eventually also be caught up to meet Me in the clouds so that you will live with Me eternally.  (II Thessalonians 4:11-18)  There were people in the church who had belonged to the sect of the Sadducees who did not believe in the resurrection.  They needed to be again reassured about the afterlife that is guaranteed to My children who will live eternally with Me in heaven.  Paul reiterated to the believers the truth of the hope to which they are called, which is to live with Me for eternity.  I am Love and to live with Me is to live surrounded and infused with My Love.  Paul could only remind the people of the blessing.  Each person experiences knowing Love personally as revealed by the Holy Spirit, but they needed to be reassured of their posterity in order to have peace.  
    Your Father of Loving Reassurance