I don’t have much to write this morning.

So many verses in this short chapter echo in my husband heart, my father heart.

I’ve been a husband over 26 years, a father over 24 years, a grandfather almost 4 years, and a father-in-law less than a week.

So listen to my heart . . . .

“For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God? And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

“To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints” (1 Thessalonians 3:9,12,13).

I try to be consistent in my living.

No matter where I am. No matter with whom I am.

At least that’s what I tell myself. And others also.

But can I have the boldness and certainty that Paul expresses in 1 Thessalonians 2:10?

“Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.”

I’m not the only witness of my behavior!

I want God to have the freedom to work in me so effectively and so surely that the result in me is a life consistently pleasing to Him.