How do you spell relief?

How do you spell relief?

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 (NASB)

The church in Thessalonica was in the storm of persecution. Paul was torn away from them and worried about them. In this final section of Paul's introduction, he expressed great relief that the church has marked itself, “safe.”

1. A firm faith in .

• 1 Thessalonians 3:7, “...for this reason, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; 8 for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.”

2. A longing for .

• 1 Thessalonians 3:6, “But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you…”

3. A holiness in view of Christ’s .

• 1 Thessalonians 3:12, “...may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; 13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.”

C.S. Lewis, “A book on suffering which says nothing of heaven, is leaving out almost the whole of one side of the account. Scripture and tradition habitually put the joys of heaven into the scale against the sufferings of earth, and no solution of the problem of pain which does not do so can be called a Christian one.”