Scheduled Reading: (Click here to read passages online; Click back in your browser to return here)
- 1 Chronicles 26:20 - 27:34
- Psalm 89:35-41
- Proverbs 18:15-17
- Acts 16:1-24
It's often with the best of intentions that I will unwittingly get myself into trouble. But I gotta tell ya... I don't know of a time when I acted foolishly or stubbornly when I didn't hear that still small voice or have that check in my spirit saying... and I quote... "Ahem." God is faithful, even when I am faithless. I sure am glad my salvation rests in the qualifications of Jesus Christ and not on my qualifications!
Paul and his posse (my 12 year old son would be proud) weren't up to no good here. They were actually trying to go preach the Gospel to some folks that needed to hear it! Yet God had other plans. He wouldn't let them in. He set up an impervious blockade. Now I suppose they could have pressed the issue and went in those towns anyway. I probably would have. Some people may have gotten saved too. Who knows? God does. He knows. He knows exactly what would have happened - or what would NOT have happened had they gone to those towns first.
It is going to be a few chapters before we get to find out what was so important in Macedonia. But along the way we are in for a rough ride: faithful obedience on display, cruel jealousy in full force, and spectacular conversions to faith in Christ.
I am so thankful that our God speaks to us by the Holy Spirit and helps us along the way. Shame on me for the times I pretend to not hear Him. I suspect I am not alone in this folly. We are all a work in progress.
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