Tuesday the 23rd

Acts 14: 1-2

¹At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed. ²But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

 

We live in turbulent times to sat the least. The struggles the Paul and Barnabas faced we also face today. While we might come from different perspectives, and “denominations” our faith is the same, the faith in Christ crucified is what holds us together. However there will always be those that will try to poison our minds, and the minds of those around us. Just like Paul and Barnabas, we find that the enemy is not always outside of the gate, but standing right next to us. The attack does not come as most battles are waged. This attack comes on the whispers of doubt, they start with well my God wouldn’t, or the God I believe in……the damage is not sudden like the point of a sword, but it is dull and grows like a cancer, slowly spreading until the entire body is rotten. The brothers had to struggle against that cancer, and it is a cancer that is alive today. We have but one God to worship, He has but one Son. The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He might be your God, or My God but at the end of the day He is THE God. We should heed the reminder, and cleave to what we know to be truth. We do not bend God to fit into our will, we must bend our lives to fit into the will of God. The former is the most employed way that people will pervert the Word of God, the latter is the path to salvation. We must be on the look out for those that would distort and manipulate the Word of God so that it will justify turning off the path.  There will always be people who will try to convince you that “their way” is the right way. There is but ONE WAY, and that is the way of the Lord, there is a great reference book out there for those that might have questions….it is called the Bible, it is filled with guidelines for not “a way” but for the way THE WAY……the Way of Christ. Don’t depend on anyone else’s way, don’t look to someone else’s God. Look to your God, the one who has known you before you were born. Don’t allow yourself to be poisoned, suit yourself up with the full armor of God.

 

 

God Bless,

Brian Thetford

The New Covenant Church

www.thenewcovenantchurch.com

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