Keep on walking. Keep on growing.

Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God—as you are doing—do this even more…

For this is God’s will, your sanctification…

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. In fact, you are doing this…

But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more… (1 Thessalonians 4:1,3, 9-10)

I’ve mentioned before that as Christians, we never truly arrive. As long as we are in this world, we will never be perfect.

And yet, as we see here in Paul’s words, we are called to keep on walking. To keep on growing.

Why?

Because God’s will is our sanctification. In other words, his will is that we would become more and more like him, in the way we act, and especially in the way we love.

Are you walking with God? Great! Do it even more.

Are you pleasing God? Great! Do it even more.

Are you loving God and others? Great! Do it even more.

Not to earn God’s love.

But because by his grace we have already received it. (1 Thessalonians 1:4)

So beloved children of God, let’s keep on walking! Let’s keep on growing!