October 26: Job 17; Acts 24-26

Scripture: Acts 26: 15 “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.

16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you.

17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Observation: Here the Apostle Paul is telling of how he met the Lord. He must have been greatly surprised that the Lord was the very one He had been persecuting! He was probably even more surprised that this Jesus did not come with revenge, but with an assignment. Paul was being sent to people from whom he would need to be rescued. Even before Paul first needed to be rescued, he had already received the promise of rescue from the Lord.

Application: Experiencing trouble is not an indication that I have missed the Lord. I should not be surprised when trouble comes my way. And I too have the promise of the Lord to be with me and to bring me not to a life free from trouble, but to a life victorious over trouble. Like Andre Couch sang: “…if I never had a problem, I’d never know that God could solve them; I’d never know what faith in God can do.” “

Prayer: Lord, if you are sending me to a place in which I will need rescue, you will rescue. If you are sending me to a place that needs provision, you will provide. If you are sending me to a place that needs a message, you will give the message. Amen.

Pastor Leon
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