When injustice goes unpunished, it's easy to wonder if God is even paying attention.

But God sees everything, and He will have the last word.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindal explores 2 Thessalonians Chapter 1 to show us why suffering

is never a divine oversight.

The same God who promises relief to the afflicted also promises justice for those who afflict them.

It's a sobering passage of Scripture and a hopeful one too.

Chuck titled his message, When God Gets the Last Word.

It's from his teaching series called Steadfast Christianity.

These people, according to verse four, were holding up in their faith and perseverance in the midst of their persecutions and afflictions.

Verse five, this is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment,

so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom

of God for which indeed you are suffering.

Two things kind of bubble to the surface when I read verse 5.

The first is this, what you are going through is not a divine oversight.

You will notice it is a plain indication that God's judgment that he's

planned is right. The second thing I noticed from verse 5 is that what I am going through is the

initiation into the kingdom of God. See the way he puts it, so that you may be considered worthy

of the kingdom of God for which

indeed you are suffering. While thinking about verse five, I thought there are three things that

occur to us when we suffer. We mature, we are crushed, and we are awakened. Now suddenly the

ball bounces to the other court in verse six. After all, it is only

just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you. Look at the shift in the scene.

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