Acts 15:7-9
"After there had been much debate,
Peter stood up and said to them, 'My brothers, you know that in the early days,
God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the gentiles
would hear the message of the good news
and become believers. And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by
giving them the holy spirit, just as he did to us: and in cleansing their
hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.'"
Lord, you made no distinction between those who had known
you for centuries and those who were babies, simply children. I know that some
of your chosen people must have been children, too, but I know there were those
prepared to hear the good news, backed by the philosophies they had been hearing
non-stop for their entire lives. And yet, you made no distinction.
You made no distinction between them. Is it possible that
this is the same principle that allows you to make no distinction between those
that have been following you almost perfectly their whole lives, and those that
have just repented murder? You say that you are making all things new, and some days, there is so much going on in my life
that I’m not sure I can believe it of you. Truly all things, Lord? Are you sure that isn’t just most things, or just the things that need it? But you don’t say that.
You make no distinction between those that are pure and exactly as you designed
them and those things that have been twisted by the enemy. And I suppose that,
in the end, there is no distinction.
After all, the whole earth is supported by your will. You
have willed everything into creation, and it is only the fact that we are part
of your will that allow us to keep on living. However twisted a thing is, the
fact that it exists means that you have crafted a place for it in your will. No
matter how the enemy tries to corrupt things, he doesn’t realize this simple
truth: your will is the only thing that allows anything to be.
