Today’s Thought “True Devotion” G. Ward

“They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:42

The Rabbi of old was recognized in the market place, perhaps causing those inconsistent with attending worship services to offer defiled defense as unprompted verbiage unto their bishop with echoes of false narrative on why they missed. I know it all too well. I’ve become quite the public figure also (via funeral officiating, weddings, invocations, etc.) and being greeted by many unfamiliar is quite normal with immediate sentiment of “I’ll see you on Sunday Pastor!”

Those who know (intimately acquainted) the Lord never need a wake-up call or awaken to conjured illness and impromptu family visitation; there’s Saturday preparation that anticipates great Sunday fellowship (*Let’s not forget mid-week services.) forgetting about the arthritis and headaches via ingestion of ibuprofen, while clearing the house of every human, demanding an adoption of Joshua’s stance that maintains, “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Josh.24:15).

Happy Wednesday!