Jim:
Act 5:27-42
Gamaliel’s advice to the council is profound. In verses 38 and 39 he says, “if this plan or this undertaking is of human origin, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God.” I wonder how often we find ourselves “fighting against God,” doing things that oppose God’s will for our lives? Along the same lines are the words of Psalm 146:3-4, “Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.” In either case it’s like Debbie says, “It’s easier to do things God’s way to begin with.” How true that is.
Luke 21:37-22:13
Portions of verses 37 and 38 say, “Every day he was teaching in the temple…And all the people would get us early in the morning to listen to him…” What a wonderful opportunity to listen to Jesus! I’m not a morning person, but I’d like to think that I’d make an exception if I had the chance to listen to Jesus teach, to hear what my Savior had to say. But there are ways to listen to Jesus that are available to us. Prayer is a way to hear the voice of God speaking to us, and reading the Bible gives us the chance to hear what Jesus has to say to us in our lives. In fact, we trust the Holy Spirit to be at work helping us to hear and to understand what God is saying in the world of scripture. And it doesn’t have to be early in the morning, either. It can be any time of day.
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