Reading
SAA Notes
What do you find impressive or notable in Paul’s declaration in verse 13? Notice that Paul’s faith is tried but comes out as gold. The Holy Spirit does not hide from Paul what will happen to him in Jerusalem. Love and fear motivate the disciples’ opposition. Let us too trust God in His providence.
SJA Notes
* God Above, thank You for Your word to us today. Please teach us how to live.
“Let the will of the Lord be done.”
Is this how we think?
Does this way, those mode of thought, pervade the deepest places of our hearts?
Do we make decisions with this trust weaving through them?
We see in today’s passage the courage that Paul displays.
We see the active hard-won trust that his companions display, the brothers and sisters who wrestled with the idea that this beloved servant of Jesus would die if he went up to Jerusalem.
“Let the will of the Lord be done.”
This is to be etched on our hearts in permanent marker.
This road we walk can have good steps, and sometimes we slog as though in the muck and mire.
It is God’s will that is sovereign. His will is what we submit under. His will that we go about each day.
Not ours.
May this way of thinking be true in our lives today and onwards – Let the will of the Lord be done!
* Gracious Father,
Please help us to submit under Your will for us and those around us.
Please help us to go about Your will for us, each of us working through what You have in store for us.
Please increase our faith.
May we step forward each day in active trust.
Amen.