How important is a strong work ethic to you as you look around your society? If you’ve been an employer or a supervisor, or even an athletic coach, how important is self-motivation and hunger to learn new skills? Those are attributes of highly valuable people in any endeavor, any organization, any society, anywhere in the world, am I right? Yet do you see those values are increasingly rare?
As we’ve been with the apostle Paul, he has something to say about that today. In his first letter to the Christians in Macedonia, particularly the city of Thessalonica, Paul has been challenging them with specific instructions about living God honoring lives which will build strong marriage, families, communities and will impact the entire society.