Gone but not Forgotten: A Love that Lasts

Paul’s Longing to See Them Again

1 Thessalonians 2:17–3:5 ESV

17 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, 18 because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy. 1 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. 5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

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In this text we see a dramatic separation between loved ones.

The text says, “But since we were torn away from you, brothers.” This word for torn away though is dramatic. It has the idea of two people holding hands being ripped apart from each other. In fact, in the NIV a stronger word is used. It says, “we were orphaned by being separated from you.”

That was the pain that Paul was feeling for his beloved brothers and sisters in Christ in the city of Thessalonica. Being ripped apart from them felt like he had been orphaned. He felt completely alone.

But the text goes on to say they were torn away, they were separated, in person but not in heart. In the NIV says, in person but not in thought. This was the kind of love that Paul had for these people.

We all have good friends that we would say we love. However, maybe they moved to a different city, and you simply don’t see them as much anymore. And you can go most days without thinking about them and even missing them. It’s possible they may be gone from your life and if you were honest most days they are forgotten. Out of sight and out of mind.

Maybe you get to see them occasionally and you love to spend time with them but it’s not like you long to be with them. You wish they lived closer. You wish you could see them more but life goes on.

That is not the kind of relationship that Paul is talking about in these verses. Paul is talking about something much stronger, something much deeper.

When my wife and I were first married it wasn’t uncommon for her to take a week and go spend time with her family. It was hard for me to get time off so she would leave me behind.

When we first were married I looked forward to these times. I loved my wife but I also really enjoyed being by myself. Having the apartment to myself. It was kind of fun. However, the longer we have been married the less I look forward to her ever being gone. In fact, I’ll be honest, when she’s gone for anything longer than a day I’m miserable. I’m like a lost puppy. I don’t know what to do with myself.

That’s how Paul is feeling in this text. He has been ripped away from those whom He loves and He’s miserable. They are gone but they are not forgotten. They are still in his heart and in his mind.

A simple question then arises. What has caused this separation?

We find the answer in Acts 17. It says Paul and Silas had made their way to Thessalonica and Paul was preaching the gospel in the synagogue. And revival started to break out. The text says that some of the Jews were persuaded and a great many of the Greeks were persuaded to follow Christ.

But the leading Jews of the city were jealous so they banded together with evil men and formed a mob and set the city in an uproar and attacked the house where Paul and Silas were staying. But when they could not find Paul they dragged Jason, the owner of the house, to the authorities and said one of my favorite lines in all of the Bible. They said, these men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.

Because of the danger that Paul was in he was forced to leave and go to the neighboring town of Berea. However, when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that many Bereans were also being saved they came there to try to capture Paul and they stirred but the crowds in Berea also.

So again Paul was forced to leave and get even further separation between him and the people of Thessalonica. So you see why Paul says he was torn away. He did not leave under peaceful circumstances. He was separated by force to leave those whom he loved. He was torn away from those He had just lead to Christ.

And the text says it was like he was orphaned. But as you would except someone to do in this circumstance Paul tried again and again to see them face to face. However, Satan had hindered Paul from seeing them.

That is where we find ourselves this morning. A desperate man wanting to know how his children in the faith are doing. But it is from Paul’s desperation that we find two realties of love.

Paul was separate from the Thessalonians. They were gone but not forgotten because Paul had a love that lasts and the big idea this morning is this.

A love that lasts brings glory and pain.

A love that lasts brings both glory and pain.

We see the glory of love in verses 19–20

19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy.

Paul is trying to explain to them why he has tried to fervently to see them again. Why he has tried again and again to see them.

He says something quite honestly that is shocking.

He says that they will be his crown of boasting before the Lord.

What???

You almost want to take a double take. Did Paul really just say that? Did Paul really just say that before the Lord he will have something to boast about? Did he really just say that they are his glory?

What could Paul possibly mean by this. You may be tempted to quote Paul back to himself. Paul says in Galatians 6:14 (ESV)

14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

What is happening here. What does it mean for Paul to say that they are his crown of boasting? That they are his glory and joy.

As I read this passage the humanity of Paul really stood out to me.

Because Paul has written so much of the New Testament it’s easy to place him on a pedestal where he doesn’t belong. I once heard someone say it’s like we think Paul is the fourth member of the trinity. It goes the Father, the Son, Paul, then the Holy Spirit. Which is obviously blasphemous.

However, it’s understandable why we struggle with this considering how often we say the phrase, God says, and, Paul says, interchangeably. Our theology reminds us that it is the Holy Spirit, it is God that is inspiring the words Paul wrote and yet it can be so easy to miss that and elevate Paul to a standard he does not belong.

But in this text we see the humanity of Paul. We see a man struggling with the realities of love.

This realities of love that Paul is experiencing is most easily seen in a parent-child relationship. When Suzy succeeds I feel like I succeeded. When Suzy fails I feel like I failed. Because Suzy is the thing that I am most proud of. It’s not uncommon to hear someone say of their kid. They are my pride and joy.

That’s what Paul is saying here and we shouldn’t over think it. I think it makes sense to us. Now we have all seen parents go overboard in this kind of a relationship. They live vicariously through their child. That is not hard to spot. It’s not hard to recognize when that relationship goes off the rails. When a parent is putting too much hope in their child’s performance. When a parent’s joy is too contingent on their children.

You see those parents at sporting events. When the Dad you just wasn’t quite good enough to go D1 and he puts everything he has into his son sporting career. He’s yelling at the refs. He can’t understand why the coach doesn’t put more plays in for his son. It’s not a good look. That’s not what Paul is talking about here.

Paul is not putting all of his hope, joy, and pride on the Thessalonians. Christ is still his Hope. Christ is still his joy. Gal. 6:14 is still true. HE will boast in nothing but the cross.

And yet, in our temptation to over spiritualize everything sometimes we can turn a blind eye to reality.

Jesus can be your everything and you can still be unbelievably hurt when your child walks away from the faith.

Jesus can still be your joy and 3 John 1:4 still be true which says, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”

Let’s not be blind to realities of love.

A little over two years ago before I was a pastor here. I used to drive truck. I can still perfectly picture where I was and what I was doing when I got a phone call from Becky Huang. She mentioned that there were a few kids that were connected with our church that were entering the foster care system and wondered if we would be willing to help.

To say I was shocked would be an understatement. We were not foster parents. We were not licensed. We were not ready. It was not something we were prepared to do. But I made the mistake of telling my wife. Instantly she was on board. She couldn’t figure out why I was hesitant. Why I was scared. These kids were connected to our church. We were responsible. Why wouldn’t we do this. Eventually it was decided that if we were to go forward it would be Suzy and her brother that we would take in. But I was scared.

So I said no. But Abby had this unshakeable faith that God would provide. That our church would rally along side of us. But she also had this crystal clear understanding that this was our calling and our responsibility. So she refused to let me say no. She was kind and gentle and patient with me but she was not going to let me say no.

And to this day that was the greatest thing anyone has ever done for me. Because now in Suzy I have exactly what Paul says. She is my crown of boasting before the Lord. She is my glory and joy. And there is no greater joy then to see her walk in the faith.

We need to move on because I don’t think I can keep it together much longer. But we need to understand something very important. Paul is not talking about foster care, although I will find several opportunties to bring up foster care this morning. He’s not talking about adoption. He is not talking about being a parent.

He’s talking about discipleship. These people that he is talking about are not related to him. They are not in the process of being adopted by him. They are men and woman who he has grown to love and to care for and who he has seen put their faith in Christ.

See this kind of love that Paul is talking about is not restricted the parent-child relationship. This kind of love is open to anyone and everyone who is willing to invest in the lives of others.

These people were not Paul’s glory and joy by chance. They were not his crown of boasting before the Lord on accident. Paul sought them out. He found them and he poured his life into them.

Literally anyone can do this. There is nothing inherently special about what Paul did. It wasn’t because he was an apostle. It was because he loved people.

Our theme this year is who’s your one. We have talked a lot about who is the one person in your life that you want to come to know Jesus. Are you giving it everything you got? Are you pouring your life into them?

But I’d like to revise or add to that them a little but as well. Who is the one Christian in your life that you are investing in? That you are praying for. That you are trying to disciple. Or maybe disciple is to strong of a word for you. Maybe you don’t feel spiritually mature enough to disciple someone. That’s fine I get it.

Who is the one person in your life that you are going to go out of your way to point to Jesus? That you a sacrificially loving. You may be saying that’s risking. I don’t like opening myself up to things like that. What if I get rejected. What if I get hurt. That’s a fair question and we are going to talk about the pain of love in just a second.

But we need to understand something very important. I think often we only see this one sided. Here’s what I mean. I think we often wall ourselves off to people because we are scared that we might get hurt. We don’t want to risk it. We’d rather play it safe. But don’t you understand that playing it safe is more of a risk than anything else you can do. When it comes to loving people there is nothing more risking than playing it safe.

Because when you play it safe you are missing out on the possibility of gaining immeasurable joy.

When we got that phone call about Suzy. I wanted to play it safe. I was scared. I had no idea that I was risking missing out on one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me.

All of life is a risk. There is no middle ground. You risk getting hurt on one end. You risk missing out on joy and glory in heaven on the other. Wouldn’t you want to go the direction that could lead to joy and glory. Wouldn’t you want to go the direction that leads to you bringing more people to glory.

Let me be blunt. I think playing it safe is dumb because playing it safe is risky. I don’t want to miss out on what Paul had.

But loving people is not all sunshine and butterflies is it. Loving people isn’t a hallmark movie. Things don’t always work out in the end.

So we see the flip side of love in verses 1-5. Yes there is glory in love but the second reality of love is that it always comes with pain.

1 Thessalonians 3:1–5 (ESV)

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. 4 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. 5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

We find Paul now in Athens agonizing over how the Thessalonians are doing. So he sends Timothy to find out. But he also writes and tells them to rest assure that even though they are suffering afflictions they should not worry. But then listen to these words. In verse 3, “For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.” That is a shocking statement. He tells them they must not worry about the suffering he is going through because it was his destiny. It’s like he is saying hey don’t worry about me I signed up for this. I know what I’m getting myself into. It’s ok.

So here’s the other side of the coin. A love that lasts brings glory. But a love that lasts is destined for pain.

Now you may be thinking wait a second. Paul isn’t being persecuted for loving the Thessalonians. He’s being persecuted for preaching the gospel. This passage has nothing to do with love, you may think.

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But was it not love that drove Paul to preach the gospel? Was it not love that compelled Paul to do the very thing he knew he would suffer for? Paul was under no illusions. He knew what would happen when he preached Christ. He knew the cost and it was love that drove him to do it.

Listen to what Paul says just a few verses earlier in verses 7 and 8 of chapter 2

1 Th. 2:7-8 “7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.”

Paul knew the cost. He knew it was not possible for him to merely share the gospel with them. He knew in order to share the gospel he must be willing to also give them his life. But being so affectionately desirous of them he shared not only the gospel but his own life.

Love will drive you to do crazy things. Because love at its core is the forgetting of self and is an obsession with the highest good of the other. The highest good of those in Thessalonica was to hear the message of Christ and Him crucified. So Paul preached Christ and welcomed the consequences.

Is this not what our Savior did? When he was beaten and mocked. When he was hung on the cross. Jesus did not try to protect himself. He gave up himself for our good. He sacrificed Himself to take the penalty of our sin so we could spend an eternity with God in heaven. Why did he do it? Because he loved us. He left behind the perfect example of how to love. Self-sacrifice. A forgetting of self and an obsession with the highest good of the other.

We are so scared to get hurt aren’t we? But if we are not willing to be hurt we are not willing to love. If we are not willing to be hurt we are not willing to love.

Now fortunately we live in a time at least for a little longer where persecution isn’t a reality. But here is something else I think is fascinating about this text. Paul actually hints at a far greater pain then persecution.

Look at verse 1 and verse 5.

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, and then verse 5 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

What was it that Paul could bear no longer? It was not knowing the spiritual state of those whom he loved. I have never seen in the Bible a moment when Paul said something like. When I could bear the persecution no longer, I kept my mouth shut. When I could no longer handle the beatings, I stopped preaching Christ.

He never uses that language when it comes to persecution. He never talks about persecution as something that he can’t bear. Paul was beaten, shipwrecked, stoned, imprisoned and not once did he say it was to great to bear.

And so we see there is a greater pain that comes from rejection than persecution. Paul says I’m worried I labored in vain. He is saying I’m worried you are rejecting everything I taught you. That may sound self-serving but remember what Paul was teaching them. He was teaching them Christ and Him crucified. This was not a trivial message. Paul is worried that they have rejected Paul and therefore rejected Christ. Now I don’t think Paul feels this way about everyone. We don’t see this same language for every church Paul wrote too. But Paul really loved these people in Thessalonica. Which leads to another reality of love.

The more you love someone the more they can hurt you. I’m pretty thick skinned sometimes quiet frankly hard hearted. Not necessarily a good thing. But it’s a reality that I’m working on. But as a result there are very few people that could say something that could truly hurt me. But if Abby even looks at me the wrong way it can crush me.

Why because I love you guys but I love my wife a whole lot more. The more you love someone the more they can hurt you.

We all know this instinctively. It’s why we are so hesitant to let people in. It’s why we are so nervous about letting people get close to us. Because the less people who are close to us the less chance we have of getting hurt. Therefore the more people you love the greater risk you run of being hurt.

We need to be honest about this don’t we? If we are not we run the risk of the inevitable. You open yourself up and you get hurt. Then you think wait a second I had no idea I was going to get hurt so you wall yourself back up again.

But one of the reasons I think Paul was able to endure so much pain was that he went into it with eyes wide open. He admitted it. He said this is my destiny. And what I’m trying to do this morning is to show that pain in inevitable. It’s coming. There’s no way around it. And we need to accept it.

Speaking of pain… Growth Groups have started again. It’s a wonderful ministry. It’s a new year people are excited. It’s fun to get to know people better. It’s an exciting time. But you need to know. If you are in a growth group the chances of you getting hurt actually increase.

If you don’t want to get hurt don’t get close to people. If you don’t want to get hurt don’t join a growth group. If you don’t want to get hurt don’t open yourselves up to the people in your growth group. But growth groups are designed to cause you to open yourselves up and when you do there is always a chance that you get hurt because of it.

Also the way growth groups are designed is that you will get really close to a small group of people for 1 or 2 or maybe even 3 years. But because of the nature of how this ministry has to grow. Eventually your group will need to split.

I’ve been challenged not to use the word split. It’s a negative word. It’s probably better to use a word like launch. But whatever you call it. Eventually the group that you have grown to love and feel close to will eventually have to split because we need to make room for more people and more groups. And that will inevitably lead to pain and hurt.

Joining a church increases your chance of getting hurt. It would be far easier to sit on the sidelines and never invest. It would be easier to stay at home when you aren’t feeling it and watch online. But when you join a church it opens yourselves up to others and it opens yourself up to getting hurt.

We’ve had families leave the church in the last couple of years. People whom I’ve loved deeply and it broke my heart.

You’ve all experienced this on some level. You’ve all been hurt by people. You’ve all been separated from people you love. But how should we respond. I think there are two options. You could wall yourself up. You could protect yourself from ever feeling that pain again. You could only allow a few people to ever really get close to you.

But let me say this gently because I don’t want to trivialize real deep emotional pain. But that instinct to protect yourself is by definition selfish.

To love is to get hurt. To love is to feel pain. But that is our calling.

My challenge to you this morning is to go the other direction. Have you been hurt in the past? Are you scared of being hurt in the future? Don’t let that stop you from loving others. Don’t let that stop you from investing in others.

I’ve had people whom I loved deeply totally turn on me. They’ve made up lies about me and spread them. I just heard one not that long ago. That was spread a couple of years ago and people were still believing it just a few weeks ago. That hurts. It makes me want to take my ball and go home. It makes me want to shield myself from others.

But then Pastor Tim asks me to preach on this passage and I realize that response is totally against what I’ve been called to do. We must not run from the pain. We must accept it and continue to love.

I have sat with people in my living room who I have spent years pouring my life into. Whom I’ve tried to point to Christ and I’ve listened to them reject everything I’ve taught them. I’ve listened to them reject everything God’s Word says, and it hurts far worse than any lie or persecution ever could.

But is this not what we are destined for? We are not called to love till hurts we are called to love through hurt. Through the pain. Through the heart ache. That is our calling.

How do we live this way? How do we love people like this? How do we endure such pain for the good of others? I think the answer lies in the reason why Paul’s earlier statement in verse 19 and 20 was so shocking.

When Paul said “19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20 For you are our glory and joy.” It was jarring. It was confusing. Because that’s not typically how Paul talks.

And therein lies the reason why Paul was able to endure such hardships for others. Because the crown of boasting, the joy, the hope, the glory that came from others was always secondary to that which comes from Christ.

Yes, it’s ok to say along with Paul these people who we have brought with us to Christ our our joy and glory. It’s ok to say with the apostle John that there is no greater joy than to see our children walk in the faith. We can be honest about all of the realities of love because they fit inside the context of a greater reality.

There is a reason why the two greatest commandments are given in the order they are. Love God and love people. When Jesus said all of the law and prophets can be summed up with two commandments. He does not say Love people with all of your heart, soul, strength and mind and love God like yourself.

That’s getting it backward. He says love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself because loving people is always in the greater context of loving God.

Loving God enables you to love people in this way. Finding your joy in Jesus allows you to find true joy in others. Boasting in Christ and Him crucified allows you to boast in those who have also put their faith in Christ. You can risk being disappointed by others because you know God will never disappoint you.

Putting your hope in Jesus above all else allows you to put your hope in others in a way that when they come up short your life isn’t shattered.

People will always fail you. People will always hurt you. But when your hope for people is inside of the greater context of your hope in God it allows you to be disappointed by people without becoming jaded.

It also allows you to heal from past traumas. Some of you have been very seriously hurt by other people. To say you’ve been let down is an understatement. You’ve been damaged. And very understandably you’ve grown jaded towards others and you’ve built walls around yourself to afraid to ever let people in. But God is not done with you yet.

There is hope. God doesn’t want you to isolate yourself forever. That’s not how you were designed. That’s not how you were called to live. But that doesn’t mean you have to change over night. Change is a process not an event. It takes time. It takes work.

God doesn’t expect perfection he only expects progress. And that progress may be painfully slow but that’s not wrong. God is not in a hurry. God is not in a rush.

Which for most of my life was always so frustrating to me. It always drove me crazy that God didn’t seem to be as interested in changing things as I was. He always seemed to take so long to do what I thought should happen so fast.

But God’s slowness, we could call it, has know become one of my favorite attributes of God for this reason. He has time for my healing. HE has the time. Healing can’t be rushed and God is never in a hurry.

I say all of this because I’m trying to push you guys really hard to love people but for some of you that is going to be incredibly difficult. If that’s you then my challenge is simple. Start taking the steps to heal.

Find a good biblical counselor and let them help you unpack your pain so you can get to the place where you can open yourself back up to people and love them the way God has called you to love.

That will take time but don’t worry God isn’t in a hurry. He has time for your healing.

Ok back to the main point. When your hope in others comes inside the greater context of your hope in God it allows you to love even when you know it’s going to hurt.

That’s the beauty of the gospel. As people we aren’t able to risk things on both sides of us. We have to be totally secured in our relationship with God before we can ever risk it with our relationships with people.

We have to know that God will never love us any more and he will never love us any less. We have to know that God will never come up short. That he will always be patient, kind, and gentle with us before we can risk putting ourselves in positions where people may be impatient, mean, and harsh with us.

We have to know that we will always have the love of the Father before we can risk the rejection of our neighbor. That is the beauty of the gospel. Because when Christ died on the cross for our sins it ensured that God will always love us. That God will always be there for us.

That no matter how hard it gets out in the world of loving people we can always come back home to the arms of a loving father.

And so when your hope in others comes inside the greater context of your hope in God it allows you to love even when you know it’s going to hurt.

This is true in other areas but where I have seen it most true in my life is shockingly again in the area of foster care. When you go to training to become licensed they are very upfront with you. The goal of foster care is always the reunification of families. Which leaves foster parents in an interesting spot.

How attached do you become to the kids that are placed in your home?

It’s a question that every foster parent wrestles with. Two ways to look at it. You could try to protect yourself. You could set up boundaries. You could constantly remind yourself that they aren’t your kids. That you shouldn’t get attached. There is some wisdom to that. But in reality i think it has a negative effect on the kids. Because the kids don’t need a babysitter they need someone to love them like they were their own.

Which leads to option number 2. Love them as if they were your own kids. Let them burrow inside of your heart to the point that if they are ever removed you wonder if it would stop beating. Because that’s what they need. They need a parent not a babysitter.

So in order to do what is best for them you must put yourself in the highest level of vulnerability.

That is true of every relationship. In order to do what is best for people you have to put yourself in the highest level of vulnerability.

Is there anything more vulnerable than being beaten, stripped naked, and nailed to a cross for the world to see. But it was Christ’s willingness to to place himself in the highest level of vulnerability that secured our highest good.

The goal of foster care is family reunification. That’s the goal. And we work honestly and intentionally to meet that goal.

But my hope.

My hope is to raise them as my own. My hope is to watch them grow up in our home. My hope is to see them graduate high school and watch them turn into happy, succesful, Jesus loving adults. Because they are my glory and my joy. They are my hope. But that hope in them comes inside of the greater context of my hope in God. My hope that if they ever do get removed and go back home that God will be able to pick up the shattered pieces of my life. That God will still be good even when everything falls apart.

We will never be able to love the way God calls us to love unless our hope is ultimately in God. We will never put ourselves in vulnerable situation unless our hope is in God.

We live such guarded lives. So afraid to get hurt. So afraid to let people in. My challenge to you this morning is simple. Don’t shy away from the pain don’t run from the hurt. I want you to look straight at the pain. Acknowledge it. Accept it. Know that it’s coming. It’s your destiny. Then say, I will experience all of that so I can see people know Christ. So I can see people mature in their walks with the Lord.

I’ve found many opportunities to bring up foster care this morning. Allow me to bring it up one more time. Abby found a quote online regarding foster care and now we have it hanging on a poster in our kitchen. It’s specific to foster care and adoption. But it won’t be hard for you to see how it can apply to everyone. It goes like this.

If I’m afraid so a child feels safe.

If I cry so a child learns to smile.

If I give of myself so a child learns to receive.

If I die a little inside so a child comes to know the one who died for them.

Then it will be worth it all.

Why would anyone ever sign up for that kind of love? Because one day will we stand before the Lord and we will look around and see those whom we have brought with us and in that moment beyond a shadow of doubt we will know that every tear that was shed every pain that was inflicted every heart break that was suffered was worth it all.

We will look to the Lord and say these ones. These ones here. They are my glory and my joy. They are my crown. And we will worship the Lord together and it will be worth it all.

Don’t miss out.

Don’t play it safe.

Love others with everything you have.

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