I Want More

“I want more” should be the desire of every devout Christian. We should want more of the following each and every day.

1. More Holiness -  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.  For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;  Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:  That no man go beyond and defraud  his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified . For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.  He therefore that despiseth ,despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. 1 Thess 4:1-8  Our bodies belong to God and HIS will is that we use it for HOLY PURPOSES.  Christ purchased our bodies, the Holy Spirit dwells in our bodies and Father has called us to HOLY LIVING.

2. More Love -  But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.  And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 1 Thess 4:9-10 We are commanded and taught to love by the Father, by the Son and by The Holy Spirit.  Paul said the greatest of everything was LOVE.

3. More Quietness – And that ye study to be quiet , and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;  That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 1 Thess. 4:11-12  Back then they expected the Lord to retun any day.  Some believers had even quit their jobs and became idles and meddlers (2 Thess 3:6-15)  What kind of testimony is this to people who are lost and do not know Christ?

4. More Hope -  But I would not have you to be ignorant , brethren, concerning them which are asleep , that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep . For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.1 Thess 4:13-18  Lots of very good Christians in this world have gone through some rough times in this life, but all is not lost.  Jesus IS coming back again and we should comfort one another in this HOPE.

The longer I stick to my resolve to read 10 chapters of the bible a day, the stronger my posts are going to get.

THIS Christian wants more!  Do YOU?