So many things in life aren’t fair. Untrue rumors ruin your reputation. A drunk driver smashes into a bus filled with kids. A terrorist bomb goes off in a park. A girl is date raped by a guy she trusted. Does it ever make you wonder: Where is God? Why doesn’t he do something?
God does not cause terrible things like this. They’re caused by people who choose to sin and in their sin hurt innocent people. God usually doesn’t pay them back right away. But 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 tells you that God surely will. It really isn’t fair that people can sin against and hurt others. But they won’t get away with it. Not in the end. When Jesus comes, “they will be punished . . . and shut out from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 1:9).
2 Thessalonians
Drugs. Killings.
Paul wrote this letter to people who thought things couldn’t get worse. Keep on loving God and hold tight to his Word.