June 10
Acts 7:30-50
If God is faithful, why do people embrace faithlessness? If God rescues, redeems, and saves, why do people turn away from him to other gods? After Stephen recounted the faithfulness of God as evidenced in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, he placed the spotlight on Moses and the wilderness generation. God amazingly rescued his people from Egypt and was going to bring them into the Promised Land, but most of the people “refused to obey him.” Imagine that. God led the people through fire and light, provided daily food, and yet the people “refused to obey him.”
If that does not break your heart, nothing will. Yet if we are honest, we find ourselves in the exact same place. We have experienced forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus, yet daily choose sin over obedience. That should break our heart as well. Yet we have the gift of the Holy Spirit who enables us to overcome sin and temptation. So, let us choose faithfulness to God as a response to his faithfulness and provision to us.
Father God, thank you for your faithfulness. Help me to respond to all you have done in my life by following you and walking in obedience. Amen.
What tempts you to choose conformity to the world over obedience to God? In those areas, how can you pre-plan obedience over sin?
If God is faithful, why do people embrace faithlessness? If God rescues, redeems, and saves, why do people turn away from him to other gods? After Stephen recounted the faithfulness of God as evidenced in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, he placed the spotlight on Moses and the wilderness generation. God amazingly rescued his people from Egypt and was going to bring them into the Promised Land, but most of the people “refused to obey him.” Imagine that. God led the people through fire and light, provided daily food, and yet the people “refused to obey him.”
If that does not break your heart, nothing will. Yet if we are honest, we find ourselves in the exact same place. We have experienced forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus, yet daily choose sin over obedience. That should break our heart as well. Yet we have the gift of the Holy Spirit who enables us to overcome sin and temptation. So, let us choose faithfulness to God as a response to his faithfulness and provision to us.
Father God, thank you for your faithfulness. Help me to respond to all you have done in my life by following you and walking in obedience. Amen.
What tempts you to choose conformity to the world over obedience to God? In those areas, how can you pre-plan obedience over sin?
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