Brothers and Sisters 😊
📖 In Acts chapter 25 today we see God’s progressive Gospel expansion plan extend all the way to the emperor of Rome, as Paul continues to suffer willingly for his First Love, laying down his rights to make much of Jesus name…
“And Paul made his appeal to be kept (confined in custody) so that he could be seen by Caesar, as the Jews brought many serious charges against him that they could not prove” (vs 7,21).
Q. What is your response when you have an opportunity to lay down your rights, desires, comfort, and dreams for the glory of God and the advancement of His Kingdom?
Q. Has Jesus done enough for you to warrant spending your time, effort, energy, and resources to promote and glorify His name, instead of making much of your own?
🙏 Heavenly Father please forgive me for so often forgetting that as your child “I am not my own, but have been bought with a price” – Please help us all to remember that your good and perfect plan sometimes involves our suffering, and our ultimate reward will not be found in the here and now, but in the life to come.
🙏 Lord Jesus we praise you today that “Though you were rich, you became poor for our sake, so that by your poverty we would become spiritually & eternally rich” – Thank you for willingly sacrificing your rights so that we could be declared innocent, righteous, favored, blessed, blameless, holy, and adopted into your family forever before your throne of grace! Jesus you are so worth it! 👑…
✝️ “If then I am a wrongdoer, and I have committed many things for which I deserve to die, then I cannot escape death. But (because of Jesus atoning sacrifice on my behalf) there is now nothing to any of the charges against me!”
Acts 25:11
Grace and Gratitude 