Sunday, November 2 Let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses.​—1 Thess. 5:6.

[Áine]

Sunday, November 2

Let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses.—1 Thess. 5:6.

 

Love is essential to stay awake and keep our senses. (Matt. 22:37-39) Love for God helps us to endure in preaching despite any trouble this might bring on us. (2 Tim. 1:7, 8) Because our love extends to those who do not share our faith, we keep preaching, even witnessing by telephone and by letter. We do not give up hope that one day our neighbors will change and begin to do what is right. (Ezek. 18:27, 28) Our love of neighbor includes fellow Christians. We show such love by “encouraging one another and building one another up.” (1 Thess. 5:11) Like soldiers serving side by side in combat, we encourage one another. We would never knowingly hurt our brothers and sisters or repay injury for injury. (1 Thess. 5:13, 15) We also show our love by respecting the brothers who are presiding over the congregation.—1 Thess. 5:12. w23.06 10 ¶6; 11 ¶10-11

[Patience87]

I was amused at the choice of scripture for today. Anyone who lives on the US might get it, well those of us who are in states that observe the hour change.

[dljbsp]

Love keeps the heart awake when the world falls asleep.

It is the steady flame that won’t go out in the wind — the reason we still speak when others turn away, still hope when others stop listening.

It reaches for neighbors who mock, for brothers who stumble, for sisters who ache, and says, “You’re not alone.”

Love doesn’t blink when darkness moves in; it sharpens its sight and keeps watch beside Jehovah’s light.