Listen

Rather, we have been examined and approved by God to be trusted with the good news, and that’s exactly how we speak. We aren’t trying to please people, but we are trying to please God, who continues to examine our hearts. As you know, we never used flattery, and God is our witness that we didn’t have greedy motives.

1 Thessalonians 2:4-5

Think

Have you ever considered that God trusts you? Usually we focus on our need to trust God daily for guidance and grace. But today’s verses say God trusts us to share the good news of forgiveness and reconciliation through Christ. If the world is going to know the redeeming love of God, it must come through us. God could tell the world in any number of ways, but God chose to do it through us who have experienced this good news firsthand.

Are we trustworthy of this magnificent message? Do our words and actions give voice to love, justice, and mercy for all the world? Do we speak out against hate and injustice? This isn’t always going be a popular message when our world values power, competition, and putting self first. So, we must stay focused on the One who called us and rely on God’s strength whenever living out the good news is hard. We are in this together. Together let’s drown out the world’s noises with love.

Stella Perrin

Pray

God, who am I that the Creator and Redeemer of this world would trust me, as imperfect as I am, to be the voice of good news in this world? With your help, make my words and actions reflect your love for this world. Amen.

Go

Go,

Offering yourself fully to God, faults and all,

Believing that God loves you without reservation,

As you seek to love God and the world with all that you are.