Stand

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you— therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith. For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. – 1 Thessalonians 3.6-8

Stand fast is where we left off yesterday.

The opposite of being shaken is to stand fast.

Standing fast is important to Paul. He told the believers here that he lives if they would just stand fast. He wrote to the Ephesians that above all they should stand, and he said it twice in his teaching on the armour of God.

Our goal should always be to advance the gospel – but sometimes the best we can do is to just not go backwards. Sometimes standing fast is all God expects from us.

There are times when we are really buffeted about by the storms of life. Tragedy comes and the enemy attacks and things just seem to go bottom up. We have things that totally surprise and astound and confuse us like this Covid business.

By the grace of God and in the power of His might we can stand even in the toughest times and not matter how bad the storm. It feels like we are in one of those times. So above all we must stand.