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Thursday... Yes, it came from the one they had been with.


Acts 4:13b (NLT), "They also recognized them as being with Jesus."

Thursday... Yes, it came from the one they had been with.

We work so hard at our confidence and our reputation. We so want to be respected, looked up to, and acknowledged. But we don't realize how important it is for us to who we spend our time with. Yes, that is really important.


I am now reading in the book of Acts in the New Testament. This book could be called the Acts of the Apostles or the Acts of the Holy Spirit. I have just finished the last of the four gospels which are all about Jesus and his time on earth but he has been crucified, resurrected and has now gone on to heaven to be with his Father so this book is about the ones who had been with him, who had been left behind with a great task.

Now Peter and John two of Jesus' Apostles who had spent three years with Him had done what Jesus would have done on the way to the temple. They had healed a lame man and the religious leaders didn't like it because they did it in Jesus' name and they had killed Him.

So they arrested them and Acts 4:13 says, "The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures." And then it says "They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus." That is an awesome verse. "They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus."

And that makes so much difference in our life and who we are and what we do. So, are we spending enough time with Jesus and in the Scriptures so that others recognize that we are different? That makes so much of a difference.

Yes, there is so much to be learned out in our world. But there is also so much that God wants us to see and know and live and learn.

Now I know it is so important for our kids to go to the right schools but spending time in God's Word is also so very important. "They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus."

I'm afraid we are in this age in which we live spending enough time with Jesus. What we say on the internet shows where we are spending our time. Our attitudes, our responses, our desires shows where and with who we are spending our time.

So let's keep on the right track with Jesus.

Yes, "The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus." It is amazing what a difference we could really make.

Yes, let that be true in our lives. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning





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