God Will Make Things Right for His Own Elect

2 Thessalonians 1:5-6 K J V

There will come a time on this Christian journey when believers need encouragement. This young Thessalonian church suffered many persecutions and hardships. So, here in this passage Paul boasted to God’s other churches, offering encouragement for their example and thanking God for their steadfast faith and increasing love for one another. Scripture says that Jesus Christ suffered and died for our sins; therefore, as followers of Christ, we will suffer and go through troubles, but we do have the blessed assurance that troubles don’t last always.

On one occasion Paul, who suffered much persecution, put it this way to his young minister, Timothy, telling him to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2:3). This gave encouragement to the Thessalonians and believers today to keep holding on. Paul declared that in suffering “Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer” (v.5): “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you” (v.6). 

God is our creator; therefore, He is all-knowing and just in all His doings. When His children suffer and hold on steadfastly to their faith, their suffering is never in vain. His people trust Him, to strengthen them in the time of trouble. The suffering they endure for God’s kingdom is an evident token of His righteous judgment, and God counts them worthy of His kingdom. Like the Thessalonians, believers today have the assurance that God is just will make things right for his own elect.

Lift your voice and give God glory!