🔑 *KEY VERSE:*
"And he said, who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" (Acts 9:c)
📖 *TODAY'S READING:*
Acts 5:33-40
📜 *ONE YEAR BIBLE STUDY PLAN*
Judges 19-21
*COMMENTARY*
God's purpose can be defined as His will, agenda, move, course, procedures and a project which He set out to accomplish at a given time and for His glory. His project is something you cannot fight against.
Gamaliel, a doctor of law, declared in Acts 5:39 "... if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it–lest you even be found to fight against God". God's way sometimes offends our reasoning and thinking.
One of the most foolish things I have seen on earth is God's people fighting God's course, purpose and will in their so-called wisdom. His way is past finding. His knowledge is unfathomable and His 'man-assumed' foolishness far exceeds man's wisdom (Job 9:10;
Rom. 11:33; 1 Cor. 1:25).
The Jews assumed they were the sole custodians of God's knowledge hence anything about God that is beyond their scope of knowledge wasn't God; that's why they opposed Jesus and killed Him. Paul shared the same idea, and fought the early church, signing the undertaking for the execution of Stephen and others. The church must deliberately cross-examine its policies, dogmas, and constitutional traditions to avoid falling into the error of opposing God's purpose and plan.
The devil thought that he could truncate God's procedure when He got Jesus killed. He is regretting it now for if he had known, he wouldn't have engaged in such war (1 Cor.2:8).
Even Pharaoh must have regretted in His grave for standing against God's move. Prophet Jonah never recovered from the injuries he sustained fighting God's purpose when he tried to resist his divine mission.
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🎚 *CONTROLLING THOUGHTS*
Don't fight God's purpose and procedures! Be careful not to stand in God's course! Don't be wiser in your own eyes to oppose God's move! No one who ever fought these battles survived it.
🙏🏿 *PRAYER*
Oh God gives me the wisdom to understand and cooperate with your purpose at all times no matter the cost in the name of Yeshua the Christ. Amen
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