October 17, 2016: SOAP #2510:  Job 1-2; Acts 6-7

Scripture:  Acts (NIV) 7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.  31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the Lord’s voice:

Observation:   Steven is on trial before the Sanhedrin, a council of seventy senators.  In his defense, Stephen is reviewing the history of Israel.  With only five words, Steven covers a period of forty years.   Moses had spent those forty years in the dessert, living in exile from his family in Egypt.   Each one of those forty years had 365 mornings and nights.  They had been long years of tending sheep.  Yet they are covered in one breath by Steven.

Application:  In looking back at God’s working in my life, I too see times when it seems nothing was happening in my life.  I believe God had “spacer” times to have me in the right place at the right time.  The times did not seem very productive, but they were important.

Prayer:   Heavenly Father, I trust you to send me where you want me and to put “spacers” in my life so that I will be there at the perfect time.  Help me appreciate the “spacers.”  Amen

Pastor Leon
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