TIS ENOUGH

TIS ‘ ENOUGH

Thursday, August 29, 2019

  Acts [MKJV] 9:1-6  And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  and asked letters from him to Damascus to the synagogues; so that if he found any of the Way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

But in going, it happened as he drew near to Damascus, even suddenly a light from the heaven shone around him. And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? And he said, Who are you, lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads. And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.

  2Timothy 3:16-17  All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished to every good work.

  2Peter 1:2-4  Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

  Something some of we saints have in common with Paul is that with difficulty we learn love and grace. His first biggest lesson was his being struck on the road to Damascus as he continued doing what he believed to be his righteous duty, doing so with the sanction and authorization of the religious leaders.

  The lesson of maturation in love and grace being one in continuance; it is not a simple one time kneeling at an altar in dedication. Later in Paul’s new life God again reminded him of His sufficiency. (2Cor.12:1-11)

  What of us, think we that we’ve accomplished complete fitness in embracing “All Scripture”? Or, do we in confessing our weakness trust in God’s sufficiency?

EBB4

PS: For further study read today’s verses in context and then do the same with Ps.19:7-14; Jn.10:27; Gal.1:8; Colossians chapter 2; Jud.1:3.