Today’s Thought “For HIS Glory, or Mine Own?” G. Ward

Acts 22

¹⁷ “It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and I saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’ ¹⁹ And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

 

Many of us deemed “old school” find new parenting laughable because we know the invaluable effort from our parents sought preparing us for an apathetic society where there’s foolish promotion of self-preservation over selflessness. Moreover, in some families, we now witness several varieties on dinner plates, so as to accommodate toddlers to teens, along with witnessing skillful negotiating from the same, who relegate chores as their parent’s responsibility.

Our biblical theme witnesses Paul’s post-conversion experience, to then be specifically assigned by his Redeemer (our All-Knowing Lord). Paul argues a usefulness in Jerusalem, because he once embodied a zealousness similar to those opposers, along with having been devout a Jew (beforehand), as if to say, “Lord perhaps YOU didn’t know that about me, so I thought to inform YOU.” Can you say, “sometimes zeal can be pompous?”

“To Be Happy in Jesus, Is to Trust and Obey…”