Trust

S: Acts 20

O: Haha, Eutychus, patron saint of those who fall asleep in a sermon 😅. But God used Paul to raise him from the dead after he fell to his death 3 stories.

By the time he got to Miletus and met with the Ephesian elders, he alrady knew that jain and suffering awaited him in Jerusalem, but he was convinced the Holy Spirit was directing him to go there anyway, so he wasn't worried. As he wrote in Philippians 1:21, "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

As he wrote in 1 Corinthians 15, when we are in Christ, "Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ"!

A: Like Paul, we do not have to fear death. We can commit ourselves to Him and not worry, because we have eternal life. As Jesus told us in Matthew 10, "Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell."

So let us surrender all to Jesus and trust Him to lead and guide us.

P: Father, help me to be appropriately bold and to trust You, to do what You call me to do. In Jesus' name, amen.