Stay the Course of Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:4-5    
4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, 5 which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer;

The apostles boasted in the patience and faith of the Thessalonians throughout the other churches.  This was because it was under the fire of persecution and pressing times of hardship and constant attacks, to which they stood up to by trusting the Lord and waiting for deliverance from or through it all.  They suffered for Christ’s sake and for the kingdom to come, not counting themselves worthy, but showing the grace of God and relying on His judgement to come on those fighting Him in them.  They suffered and He counted them worthy by their trust of faith in His righteousness and justice to be revealed at the judgement.  When we follow Christ and stay the course of obedience in grace, then we also can be reminded of those before us and endure for His sake, suffering as His children.