“Tell them what you read”

Ben prodded his brilliant, but humbly reserved wife, Katie, as we sat at dinner on our back porch last night to, “Tell them what you read”.

How my heart hoped it was good news given all that has occurred in our country, and especially in a New York courtroom this week.

Admittedly, it concerns me that our legal system is being allowed to be weaponized, and that those weapons may quickly be turned against those who seek to share the good news of the gospel.

But Katie’s words encouraged my heart.

She had read in Acts 5 yesterday morning and explained she had never noticed the words of Gamaliel, the Pharisee, as Peter and some of the other Apostles were on trial for refusing to stop preaching the good news of the gospel in a world that hated truth.

But Gamaliel cautions the council and the raging mob who were calling for the death of Peter and those with him, to leave them alone as he explains, “ if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot over throw it—lest you even be found to fight against God.” (Acts 5:38-39).

And here we are thousands of years later and Christianity has not come to nothing but has spread across the globe like wildfire.

No, no weapon formed against the cause of Christ will stand. (Isa 54:17)

Yes, we see sad, hard, wrong things around us. Right is called wrong and wrong is called right. (Isa 5:20) We should speak up against these things.

We see a flawed world with two very flawed men running for the highest office in the world. (Let me say again, I much prefer one candidate and his policies to another’s. I will vote for that candidate because his policies are the ones that best promote life and liberty—including religious liberty. )

But all of us need to remember, we need to be encouraged, that nothing has stopped nor will it stop the work of God to do just as He said He will do.

Our hope is not in human hands or a government.

Our hope is in God whose Kingdom is still powerfully advancing!

Let’s keep encouraging one another to remember this, and all the more, as we see the Day (of His return) approaching. (Heb 10:25)

As Paul urged the early Christian’s to do—Let’s be careful how we live Let’s do good. Let’s seek to know God’s will, and let’s encourage each other. (Eph 5:15-20).

And let’s remember—so often that encouragement we have to offer one another, that truth we can hold on to, will come as we simply share with each other what God is showing us in His Word—just as my precious new daughter-in-law did with me last night.

Oh friends, what a Savior!

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