Blameless in Holiness

1 Thessalonians 3:11-13    
11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, 13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

God directs our paths as we step forward in faith according to His word, by command or principle.  We must pray along the lines of the Lord’s Prayer, that His will is done in making the ways we are to go.  As we are so led by the Spirit according to His word, we then see fruit in our efforts.  Here the Lord gave increase and abounding love to those in Thessaloniki as those ministering to them likewise did so in obedience toward them.  This reciprocal work is all to work together as a body as Ephesians 4 lays out, building us up and settling our hearts in perfect holiness in Christ when He returns.  That return will be with all who are in Him, called holy in Christ’s righteousness alone, yet faithful to please Him in this life by His grace working in us as we work out our salvation with fearful trembling in His awesome presence and love. This is how we will be blameless in holiness.