We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
-II Thessalonians 1:3
The believers in this passage of the New Testament were commended for possessing faith that was living and active. If our faith is thriving then it is growing, and if it is growing then it is accomplishing God’s will for our lives. Paul instructs the believers in II Thessalonians to continue on with their faith that is growing. He has already told them about the coming of the Lord. Countless people live as though the Lord will never return, and they live as though the judgment of God will never come. We know that the day of the Lord will one day come, and we believe this by faith. Therefore we strive to be ever ready for that day when it happens.
Until then we seek to have faith that is growing, thriving, living, and active. We cannot grow spiritually as followers of Christ if our faith has grown stagnate. The desire of the mature believer is to possess faith that is growing and taking us ever deeper into our relationship with Christ. The greater our faith, the closer our walk Jesus – which leads to spiritual victory and the fullness of God’s grace.
