…We pray very earnestly night and day to see you face to face and to complete what is lacking in your faith. (1 Thessalonians 3:10)
“To complete what is lacking in your faith.”
It seems Paul is talking here about how because he was forced to flee Thessalonica so suddenly (Acts 17:5-10), he wasn’t able to instruct the Thessalonians as throughly in the faith as he had wanted to.
And as I read that, I especially thought about my daughter and the other young people in my church. I want to help complete what is lacking in their faith, to fill in the gaps they still have as to what they believe and why.
But I also thought about myself. Because I see gaps in my own faith.
Not so much in knowing what I believe, but in living it out.
Too often, for example, I pray with little faith that anything will ever change, whether it’s for someone’s healing, or the salvation of someone I love, or the resolution of their seemingly neverending struggles.
I also struggle getting out of my comfort zones a lot. It’s easy for me to do things when I think things will go well. But to have the faith to step out into things I’m not so sure about, I still struggle with that.
And so I’m praying, “Father, please complete what is still lacking in my faith.”
I’d covet your earnest prayers for me on that too.