“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you” (1 Thessalonians 5:1).

Paul didn’t need to inform the Thessalonians concerning these things.

“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (2).

They already knew.

So do I.

This morning I read those verses again and ask myself, “Does it affect how I live and for what purpose I live?”

I am busy, busy, busy. (I didn’t include the word enough times, but you get the point.)

But in my busy-ness, what Eternally Important Things am I leaving unattended and undone?

Oh let me live always with the right focus and right priorities and the right purposes!

“Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more” (1 Thessalonians 4:1).

Those folks learned from Paul how to live to God’s pleasure.

A lot they learned from his oral and written teaching.

I expect they also learned a bunch by observing how he lived.

In fact, to the Philippians he wrote:

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you” (4:9).

Likewise, others receive from me how to live to God’s pleasure.

Or do they?