Saturday, January 2, 2021
How can we teach others
To see the Light
to know Truth and Grace?
Nehemiah 8:8
So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
Acts 28:30-31
He lived there for two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
Words of Grace For Today
Teaching.
Teaching with all boldness and without hindrance.
God’s Word does not spread all on its own. God can, but very seldom does, intrude in the order of things, to make faith be in us against our will, with signs so dazzling and powerful as to overpower our own thinking minds and hearts. It does happen occasionally. God seldom interferes with our freewill.
Yet when we believe, no matter how it comes to us, it is not a choice of our own. God works in many and various ways to bring each person to faith. Without God’s work there is no faith in any person. Left on our own, we would have no faith.
This faith is something else. Faith is what carries us even when we think we can carry on no more, when the weight of Evil and Sin is heavier than the darkness that holds us down, or when the power of hell blows straight in our faces, minds and hearts robing us of any possibility of hope. Faith is what keeps us alive when so many enemies would wish us dead, and so many corrupt officials, liars and unawares simpletons would make their contributions to our slipping off this fragile mortal coil, or when tradition is evil and it is used against us to take life away from our very souls.
To teach.
To teach with all boldness and without hindrance.
To teach traditions, old and renewed, that give life to all.
This is God’s work carried on through us … as the Holy Spirit empowers us to be … to be saints reflecting Christ’s Light to all people.
People will understand … as the Holy Spirit gives them the ability to understand.
People will believe … as the Holy Spirit gives them the ability to believe.
Thankfully, God’s works are wondrous and powerful … so much more powerful than all sin and evil,
so that faith abounds.