Today’s Thought “Consumed With the Message” G. Ward

 

Romans 1:16 “ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

 

The Apostle Paul’s heralding of the good news insisted it be deemed exclusively and authentically over what was a similar recognition in Rome that announced the great works of their highest government official. It purported demagoguery, idolatry and blasphemy then and does so now.

When the world is equally familiar with your efforts politically, along with your insistence for social and economic reform, it’s a refusal in acknowledgement of Christ’s sufficiency (cf. Matt.18:11, Ro.5:9). Can we as believers have both, and (see Matt.24:35, Ac.4:12)?