Sunday, November 13, 2011

Productive Energy

1 Thessalonians: 1-11

In the 2001 animated movie, Monsters, Inc., a whole city’s energy is generated by the screams of children in fear of the monsters that appear at night in the dark! A great story line, and, how true, that fear can generate a lot of energy, though rarely for positive gain! In fact, it is the energy created by the opposite of fear, faith, which propels us in the positive direction.

This passage of scripture reminds us that fear of what will happen in the end is not productive or even necessary. We have a description of our being taken care of in the end. We have the complete story of how we had our lives designed for a good life, now and forever.  The importance of the details of how the end will happen pales in comparison to the picture of our destination, and presence of our deliverer.

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