They say, everyone’s got a story! I seldom meet someone who doesn’t have a story. They’re out there and I suppose in their own way that is their story. But what we usually mean when referring to ‘their story’ is the stuff they’ve been through! It’s trials, tribulations, afflictions, illness and deaths that mark out journey here on this planet. It’s sin, divorce, assault, grief or poverty that unfortunately highlight our lives. The silly thing about some of today’s Christian thought is that Jesus keeps us from that. WRONG! Jesus keeps us through it when we walk with him through it! The last words I remember my pastor saying to me was: ‘Tim, finish well!’ So today, we like Paul and Barnabas face a world that hates Jesus, yet it is by walking with Him through it, we finish our journey well.
"Behold the courage of these Christian men! They counted not their lives dear to them, and returned to do their Masters work in the very places in which they had been so grievously persecuted. The welfare of the infant churches they deemed of more consequence than their own safety; and they threw themselves again into the midst of danger."
"Every Christian who wishes to follow Jesus faithfully and desires to see people come to know the Savior will have to bear some measure of suffering . It’s what I like to call the missions law. We simply won’t reach people without sacrifice." Tony Merida
TEXT: ACTS 14:19-28
SONGS
NOT MY WILL, LIZZIE MORGAN, SEPH SHLUETER
TO GOD BE THE GLORY, COVER
