The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 5 August 2026 – Our Glory And Joy
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TOPIC: Our Glory And Joy
READ: 1 Thessalonians 2:9-20
1 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
THE MESSAGE:
Continuing from where he stopped yesterday, Paul in today’s text narrates what examples he and the other apostles were to the Thessalonian Church. He was grateful to God continually that when the Thessalonian church heard the Word from them, they received it as the Word of God and not that of men (v. 13). According to Paul, he and his co-labourers were eager to visit the Church to encourage them and their new-found faith but Satan hindered them. This incident must have led Paul to write this letter. Paul emphatically stated that their hope or joy in rejoicing would be them in the presence of Jesus Christ at His coming.
As a believer in Christ, what gives you joy or what do you glory in? Everything here on earth is temporary and will one day vanish. Our glory, joy and rejoicing should be those who together with us, will appear in the presence of Christ at His Second Coming. Let us jointly work towards this while there is still time, by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Personal Saviour and working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, may I be an instrument to bring men to your presence at your appearing, Amen.
