On Friday I received our Youth Sunday School curriculum, "Your Life in Christ", in the mail. After it was delivered our office manager brought it into my office saying something like, "Your Life in Christ came in this box." (the book was in a box...I know you probably pieced that one together, but if not I thought I would help) Of course I couldn't resist and made a standard comeback to the effect of "I didn't know you could get that in a box." The sobering reality is we sometimes are very tempted to put Jesus in a box. In our flesh we kind of like Him in a box. You can take Him out when you want to be righteous and put Him away when you want to live in the flesh or when He doesn't agree with your tradition of holiness.
Here in our text for today, Peter's box for Christ got expanded once again. The box Peter had in Christ expanded several times; witnessing the numerous miracles, when Peter finally came to understand that Jesus was the Son of God, when Jesus died on the cross for our sins after speaking numerous times of this event, when He rose from the dead, and when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples. Now Peter is being hit with the fact that the Gospel is not just for the Jews. It is for all of mankind. Not only is salvation extended to the Gentiles, but full rights as brothers in Christ and children of God; Gentiles also receive the Holy Spirit.
My hope is that God can keep expanding my knowledge and faith in Him. I believe I will never arrive at full understanding of God this side of Heaven. Even some of the things I do know and fully believe in I don't fully understand. I think that's the way it's supposed to be. I do love it though when God pulls back the curtain just a little bit more for me so I can know Him more.
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