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Go ahead and look first at Acts 5 . See how God speaks to you individually. Then come back, if you wish, and see what God has put in my mind/heart.

Key Verse(s): Acts 5:38-39

Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."

Title: Boxing With God

Observation: As one James Weldon Jones once said, “Young man, young man, your arms are too short to box with God.” We too often forget that. We think its our place to pass judgment on other people, other Christian ministries, really anything that we don’t agree with.

And yet God will sort out what He will bless, and the endeavors He will allow to flourish. This does not mean that everything that’s a success is God’s plan or that anything that fails is cursed by God, but we must remember that while we may not understand or approve of someone else’s approach to Jesus, we should not assume that it isn’t God’s plan

Also, when we move together as a church, we need to move where God wants us to be. We will fail on without the intervention of the Spirit. We are too weak and frail to push things through in our humanness. We need God’s leading to reach the community in which we have been placed.

Application: I need not pass snap judgments on other people and ministries. I must wait to see what bears fruit for Jesus, what new thing that God wants to do.

Prayer: Lord God, help me to wait and see what you want. Lord, help me to have courage to take the steps in which you lead and avoid the “easier” steps of pleasing myself or others.

In Jesus Name,
Amen.