Today's Passage: 2 Thessalonians 1

The more that I am in the word daily the more I am realizing that God doesn't like to beat around the bush.  The stories found in scripture are of people just like you and me and the things that troubled them trouble us today and vice versa.  In the opening chapter of Thessalonians, Paul praises the Church in Thessalonica for their steadfastness while enduring persecution. 

The words that Paul uses are so soothing to me.  Especially in the sense that although we don't always see the justice being dealt out.  We have God's promise that the same will come to those who persecute us.  Don't get me wrong I don't want others to suffer I just want to know that eventually even the biggest doubters will see the truth and understand. 

These verses remind me of the bitter sweet passages found in Revelation. There will be justice and thankfully for us it will be dealt out by the one and only perfect God that has planned all things since the beginning of time.