Acts 12
Return Your Attention to the Voice of God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, July 17.
To whose voices are you listening?
Acts 12:21-24 contrasts a man’s voice with God’s voice, “On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. And the people were shouting, ‘The voice of a god, and not of a man!’ Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. But the word of God increased and multiplied.”
The people were listening to their political leader, King Herod, as if he was a savior and a god, rather than looking to God himself for their hope and salvation. Two thousand years later, the same thing is happening in America today, where so many people are putting their hope in politicians and celebrity voices rather than in God. We are looking to our cultural elite to save us, when there is only one name on earth that can save—the Name of Jesus Christ!
There are a lot of voices speaking today. So many in fact that it sounds like a cacophony of dissonant blowhards. It is my hope that these daily devotions are reminding you listen to the Spirit-empowered Word of God, alive and active in the world today, calling you to the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Are you being more influenced by the voices of people or the voice of God?
I am inviting you to start reading your Bible again, to start praying again, to start attending your local church again. We need an active relationship with God in our daily and weekly rhythms of life! Today is the day…
Seize the moment and return your heart focus to God and listen for His voice. I am praying for you…