For most assuredly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

 (i) He prays to God to open a way for him whereby he may come to Thessalonica. It was to God that he turned for guidance in the ordinary day to day problems of life. One of the great mistakes of life is to turn to God only in the overpowering emergencies and the shattering crises. 