Moving Fences
Acts
10:1-16
Key
Verse: “The
voice spoke to him a second time, “Do
not call anything impure that God has made clean (Acts 10:15).”
We like to divide ourselves up. It makes us feel good to do this because it tells us who we are. When there are fences we clearly see who is on the inside and who is on the outside. Peter thought he knew where the fence was, he defined himself by gauging where that fence . He thought he understood who was on the inside and who was on the outside. The fence may have defined who he was, but what God showed him that it did not define who could become a member of the body of Christ. Peter had set one fence and God had set another. Suddenly people who were not Jews, could become Christians too and that felt incorrect, that felt wrong. Throughout the gospels and the New Testament we find time and time again, nobody is beyond the reach of God. Nobody is excluded from becoming Christian. Anyone can become a Christian, everyone is welcome in be become a believer. There is no one who can not become a part of the family of God. It is our call as Christians to be as loving and accepting as God.
Prayer:
Jesus,
you love everybody. You want to accept everyone into your Church into
your family. Teach me to love like you love, show me how to be as
accepting as you. I do not want to call unclean, what you
have called clean. Do not let me see anyone as beyond the reach of
your love. Do not let me decide that there is anyone who can not come
to know you. Help me to love and accept anyone who comes to love
and believe in you. Amen
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