Heralds Digest

“Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭ 16:10 ‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/act.16.10.nkjv   It is natural that those who struggle with steps in life must have difficulties with stops. However, it is often easier to focus on learning the right steps in life without embracing the wonderful lessons that stops proffer. Meanwhile, Paul and his companions were prevented to go to both Asia and Bithynia because the Lord wanted them to go to Macedonia. When ‘what we want’ or ‘when we want it’ is not right, ‘stops’ are often presented as ‘steps’ for reasonable compromise. But with either step or stop, immediate action along a strong conviction about the perceived will of God is simply embraced by obedient children.

“Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭16:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/act.16.3.nkjv   The discovery of Timothy at Lystra by Paul was synonymous to an attractive love story. But unlike the love of man, it was the display of the sacred romance of a surrendered man in the arms of God. Little wonder, Paul just ‘took him and circumcised him’ as though he was a piece of toy on the shelf. Unfortunately, labourers in the service of the Master are often entangled by merchants with attractive mammon and manifest of this world. Consequently, the days of an absolute surrendering to any will of God (in the choice of career, life-partner, business, ministry, etc) without an attractive side-effect are old-fashioned. Whereas, God still count on fully-surrendered servants who can freely render a plug- or unplug- service to their Master, without backu...