There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Romans 15:17-19
Therefore I have reason to boast in Christ Jesus regarding what pertains to God. For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum. (HCSB)
We all deal with the great monster and deceiver “pride.” He looms over our lives every day trying to insert and manifest his deity when we are least suspect. But, what Paul is speaking of here is pride in his Lord. He also has reason for his boasting, a reason that God would wish that we all could boast and brag of daily.
Paul is boasting of what pertains of God in his life. No credit due him, for Paul was a murder and a well known and greatly feared torturer and murderer of Christians. So, his relief from all of this was to boast, to dwell on, and to share with others the greatest thing that was happening in his life…he was being used by God.
He is very careful to give God glory also, for he says that he would not even dare to take credit for what God was accomplishing in him. But, he would declare and share the miracles and wonders of God around him, so as to share the Good News. So what do think of this Paul, one of the greatest of the apostles, wasn’t he aware most every day that the Greatest miracle of all was that God would love…him…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Romans 15:17-19
Therefore I have reason to boast in Christ Jesus regarding what pertains to God. For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum. (HCSB)
We all deal with the great monster and deceiver “pride.” He looms over our lives every day trying to insert and manifest his deity when we are least suspect. But, what Paul is speaking of here is pride in his Lord. He also has reason for his boasting, a reason that God would wish that we all could boast and brag of daily.
Paul is boasting of what pertains of God in his life. No credit due him, for Paul was a murder and a well known and greatly feared torturer and murderer of Christians. So, his relief from all of this was to boast, to dwell on, and to share with others the greatest thing that was happening in his life…he was being used by God.
He is very careful to give God glory also, for he says that he would not even dare to take credit for what God was accomplishing in him. But, he would declare and share the miracles and wonders of God around him, so as to share the Good News. So what do think of this Paul, one of the greatest of the apostles, wasn’t he aware most every day that the Greatest miracle of all was that God would love…him…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
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