November 29: 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

When the Apostle Paul sat down to write this church, in about 51 AD, he could not have imagined that his words would become the first ever written in what would become the New Testament. These sentences are the closest thing we have to the life of Jesus and the earliest disciples. They were anxiously waiting for his return, and didn’t know when it would be. So are we, and Paul’s words are for us all—it will be when we least expect it, so stay alert and don’t lose hope. The day will come.