As I finished the books of Acts this morning I had to ask myself the question "Do I care enough?" So I in turn want to ask "Do you care enough?" This all stemmed from two places in Acts, the first was in Acts 20: 26-27 when Paul said:
26 I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it’s not my fault, 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.
You need to ask yourself have you been faithful? Have you shrank from telling others all that Gods wants them to know? Do you care if those around you suffer eternal death? Can you say that you have done all that God wants you to do?
The next was in Acts 26: 28-29 where it says:
28 Agrippa interrupted him. “Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian so quickly?” 29 Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this audience might become the same as I am, except for these chains.”
What King Agrippa said reminded me of the fact that we do not actually do the persuading only God can do that. I was also reminded by the fact that we should continually pray for those around us who are not yet Christians. Again do you care enough?
Finally when Paul says 'except for these chains' I was reminded that the Christian life is not an easy life. It is full of challenges and difficulties. It may not be an easy life but it is the best life. As Christians we all have our chains and as Paul also said in 2 Corinthians 12, we may also have a thorn in our sides to keep us from becoming proud.
Once more do you care enough to take your chains and your thorns and use them to bring Glory to God?
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