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Bible Study

      This is a passage to teach us an important lesson. A lesson that all Christians need to learn so that we can discern God's will and be responsible to do God's plan. Paul had his own right as a Roman citizen to have his case to be tried in the highest court in Rome. But, he needed not to do that risky decision. It's too dangerous! 

Bishop N.T. Wright's says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):

     Paul has been promised by God through his sense of vocation (19:21), and has been promised by Jesus through a special vision (23:11), that he would get to Rome. What Luke has now told us is that Paul himself has had to take responsibility, at one level, for making this happen.

     This is an important point about the interaction between God's purposes and our praying.  Sometimes, when we pray and wait for God to act, part of the answer is that God is indeed going to act, but that he will do so through our taking proper human responsibility in the matter...Discerning and discovering which applies in which case... is a major element in the discernment to which all Christians, and especially all Christian leaders, are called.

N.T. Wright. Acts for Everyone, Part 2. Louisville,KY:Westminster John Knox Press, 2008, p.199.

     Do you know you are being called by God to take responsibility to do His plan? What do you have to do recently in order that God's plan can be executed? 

               

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

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Spiritual Journal

    What I heard from Jesus today is: Take responsibility to do God's plan

   

    What I received from Jesus is a reminder to all of us that we can not just talk the talk and not walk the walk. To discern God's will is not easy, but to do God's will is what is most important. There are times that we know God's will but we just do not understand that it is our responsibility to do it and we wait and wait for other people to do. There won't be Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Peter and Paul if they did not take the responsibility to do what God's put on their shoulders. 

    So, do you have anything God is making you responsible to do? Are you willing to do it? 

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to be willing to take responsibility to do your plan so that your Kingdom will be extended and your name will be glorified.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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