Heralds Digest

“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...

“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...So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭16:3, 5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/act.16.3,5.nkjv Righteousness exalts a nation composed of people's sense of respect for acceptable relationships and dignity at home and the society. This sense of respect had earlier introduced accommodation of different standards for the Jews and the Greek (or the gentile world) on the issue of circumcision. But when Timothy must enjoyed one of the privileges or acceptance, apparently as Jew or First-Class minister of the gospel, Paul had to bend more a little in favour of the respect race. Except in certain instances when God's commandments are disrespected, insensitivity to people's sense of respect, cultural diversity, and people's opinion about acceptable social lifest...