03-23-2014
Acts 20: 32 – “And now I commend you to God
and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to
give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified”
My mother tells me that when I was a very
young man and we moved to Bay City, TX, we hadn’t been there two weeks before
people she didn’t know were coming up and calling me by name and speaking with
me. I knew them, and they knew me. Apparently, I didn’t know that I was supposed
to be afraid of new things and people. I
was just happy to be making friends, and it never occurred to me that I should
be cautious of strangers. I think that
maybe there was an element of my fearlessness that was due to my parents’
ability to make me believe that they would always keep me safe.
New places didn’t bother me because of their vigilance. It was even there when they weren’t with me it would seem…
New places didn’t bother me because of their vigilance. It was even there when they weren’t with me it would seem…
Paul writes to the Ephesian elders as he
sets his sights on a journey to Jerusalem.
A journey that he knows is going to be filled with some very hard
things. He gathers the elders to let
them know that they won’t see him again and leaves them with this
encouragement. “I commend you to God and
to the message of His Grace”. He’s
telling them that even with new circumstances, changing directions, and even
new people, their Heavenly Parent is ever vigilant, and would make sure they
had all they needed to receive the inheritance they were promised.
This is another thing that lent can allow
us to learn. God and the message of
grace are always present, always building us, always reminding us that no
matter what we face we have been given everything we need to finish our course
and claim the victory that God through Jesus gifted us with. Go with Grace today… the journey may be
difficult at times, but the Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient God of
creation is going with you.
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