Passage of the Day - January 27, 2011

Acts 22:1-5

¹"Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you."

 ²And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,

 ³"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

 ⁴"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

 ⁵as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Isn’t it amazing how God can even use our evil past for His future glory?  We should not hide our past because it is part of God’s story of redemption.  Our past is our shame, but redemption for it is God’s glory!  When we hide our past, we put our shame above God’s glory.

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