Scripture

You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

~Acts 1:8, NIV

Quote

It is always possible to do the will of God.

~Elisebeth Elliot

When Jesus left this world and returned to heaven, He made His disciples responsible for making disciples in all nations; this was their assignment, their appointed task. Wow! It is a thousand wonders that they didn’t question His judgment. I might have said, “What did you say? Are you kidding? You are going to put us in charge after You have seen us fail every test You’ve ever given? Think about it, they had consistently failed. The one thing you could count on was them failing. Take Peter for example: he rebuked Christ, he went to sleep on Him in Gethsemane, and then he denied Christ after His arrest. Peter was batting 1.000: he failed every test. They were all in the same boat; none of them could get it right and they didn’t understand Jesus mission although He told them His purpose time and time again.

Why would you put such a momentual task in front of a group of failures? They are bound to get Jesus’ teaching all confused. What would keep them all together on one page? Who would guide them with Jesus gone? Who is going to empower them for such a formable task? The answer is the Holy Spirit. This is why Jesus told them to wait! {Acts 1:4} The disciples must have been anxious as they looked forward but we have the luxury of looking back, and we know that Jesus was right and the Holy Spirit working through the apostles accomplished what must have seemed to them at the time as being impossible. Wow!

NTAT is the abbreviation I use in making notes…Never thought about that…and until I read J.I. Packers devotion, I had never considered the about thought; if so I don’t remember.

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Had to leave extremely early this morning so I posted from the I-pad and there is no extra. Have a good day.