Today's encouragement comes from Acts 27:11, which says this:
"Nevertheless the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul."This one little verse summarizes the fatal error most people make. They listen to their pocketbooks, their financial concerns, and their temporal welfare, *more* than they heed the preaching of the gospel of God’s grace in the Lord Jesus Christ. And, of course, the result—in every case without exception—is the shipwreck of their lives, their estates, and all their hopes and dreams (even in this life).
. . . May we be wiser than this, by the saving grace offered to the whole world in The Person of Christ. The redeemed church will always listen to The True God—but this is because of supernatural grace given us in our regenerations in Jesus.
[Puritan quote of the day: "What Satan did in tempting man to fall is made an occasion of the contrary to what he intended in that it gave occasion for God to glorify Himself all the more, and gives occasion for the elect being brought to higher happiness.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, "The Wisdom of God"]
