Hope Renewed

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Thia was puzzled. Why was his eighteen-year-old son spending so much time in the library these days? His son, who was autistic and rarely spoke to anyone, would usually return straight home after class. What changed? When pressed, his son finally replied: “Studying with Navin.”

Navin, it turned out, was a classmate who noticed that Thia’s son was struggling in class and invited him to study together. This budding friendship—the first in eighteen years—greatly encouraged the disheartened father who’d given up hope of his son ever having a friend.

Hope was renewed because one person cared enough to come alongside another who needed help. In Paul’s ministry to the early church, he knew this also applied to our hope of salvation. For believers in Jesus to “be awake and sober” (1 Thessalonians 5:6), living in the hope of His return, they had to help one another (v. 11), especially those who were struggling.

That’s why, even though the Thessalonian believers loved one another (4:10) and led lives that pleased God (v. 1), Paul reminded them to “encourage the disheartened, help the weak” (5:14). When we notice believers in Christ who are fearful, anxious, or despondent, and we come alongside them—whether to listen, offer a kind word, or sit quietly together—God can use us to give them the strength and courage to hold on to their hope in Jesus.

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0:00.0	Encourage the disheartened, help the week, be patient with everyone.
0:06.5	1 Thessalonians 5, verse 14.
0:11.8	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:16.0	Our reading titled Hope Renewed was written by Jasminee and read by Rochelle Troub.
0:23.4	1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, verses 4 through 15.
0:28.6	But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a
0:34.7	thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day.
0:39.8	We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others who are asleep,
0:47.0	but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk,
0:56.5	get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope
1:03.3	of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation
1:10.1	through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died
1:13.3	for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him. Therefore,
1:20.2	encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge
1:30.5	those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord, and who admonish you.
1:36.4	Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other,
1:43.1	and we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are
1:46.9	idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make
1:55.2	sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
2:06.1	Hope Renewed, written by Jasmine Goh. Theo was puzzled. Why was his 18-year-old son spending so much time
2:16.1	in the library these days? His son, who was autistic
2:20.1	and rarely spoke to anyone, would usually return straight home after class. What changed?
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