Today's Scripture
Boldness – Romans 1:8-17
TODAY’S READING SCHEDULE: Acts 20:1-3 Romans 1-3(CEB)
8 First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the news about your faithfulness is being spread throughout the whole world. 9 I serve God in my spirit by preaching the good news about God’s Son, and God is my witness that I continually mention you 10 in all my prayers. I’m always asking that somehow, by God’s will, I might succeed in visiting you at last. 11 I really want to see you to pass along some spiritual gift to you so that you can be strengthened. 12 What I mean is that we can mutually encourage each other while I am with you. We can be encouraged by the faithfulness we find in each other, both your faithfulness and mine.
13 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I planned to visit you many times, although I have been prevented from coming until now. I want to harvest some fruit among you, just as I have done among the other Gentiles. 14 I have a responsibility both to Greeks and to those who don’t speak Greek, both to the wise and to the foolish.
God’s righteousness is revealed
15 That’s why I’m ready to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 I’m not ashamed of the gospel: it is God’s own power for salvation to all who have faith in God, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 God’s righteousness is being revealed in the gospel, from faithfulness[a] for faith,[b] as it is written, The righteous person will live by faith.[c]
What does this passage mean to me/us
Paul says how he is called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not everyone, however, is called to preach.
We might not be eloquent in transferring our thoughts into words.
But we do need to understand that preaching doesn’t only involve speaking.
Preaching is more powerful when it is lived out.
The goal of my preaching should be how I can really live out what I say.
Therefore, it also means that if we live out what we are called to believe we are preaching the Gospel.
So as Paul says, “I’m not ashamed of the gospel: it is God’s own power for salvation to all who have faith in God to the world” (v. 16), we can also live in this way as we see how our lives become a testimony to the world.
Prayer
Lord, may my life become a story of your love projected in this world. In Christ name, we pray, AMEN.
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