Mon., 1/6/20 Devotion (Acts 6:10)

Today's encouragement comes from Acts 6:10, which says this about Stephen:

"And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he [Ste-phen] spoke."

As the Holy Spirit is at work in us, God's churchmen (men and women, boys and girls); and especially as we are preaching or speaking the gospel of Jesus and His free grace—no one, and nothing is able to "resist" us. Sinners may kill  us, the messengers of good news, as they murdered Stephen (in the Book of Acts)—but they cannot overcome us, or our words.

Today, let us seek in our Redeemer the same  "wisdom and the Spirit" that Stephen relied upon. Also, instead of disdaining the gospel of mercy, like Ste-phen's hearers did—let us gladly and zealously embrace Christ in it; and let us be speakers of words of life and grace (all of which are found in Jesus alone).

[Puritan quote of the day: "That sin is worse than affliction is evident because the greatest judgment God lays upon a man in this life is to let him sin without control.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]