Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the gospel I preached isn’t human in origin. I didn’t receive it or learn it from a human. It came through a revelation from Jesus Christ. You heard about my previous life in Judaism, how severely I harassed God’s church and tried to destroy it. I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my peers, because I was much more militant about the traditions of my ancestors. But God had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace. He was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach about him to the Gentiles. I didn’t immediately consult with any human being. I didn’t go up to Jerusalem to see the men who were apostles before me either, but I went away into Arabia and I returned again to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days. But I didn’t see any other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord. Before God, I’m not lying about the things that I’m writing to you! Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, but I wasn’t known personally by the Christian churches in Judea. They only heard a report about me: “The man who used to harass us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.” So they were glorifying God because of me. (Galatians 1:11-24, CEB)
Paul here tells the Galatians he preaches a gospel of good news, not of his own creation, but one that is a revelation from Jesus.
When we preach what we want to hear, we are not preaching the word of God.
When we only appreciate hearing what we already believe and are not challenged or pushed to be more loving and caring, then we are trying to put God in a box, and God does not fit in our boxes.
Seek to be molded by God’s word for the betterment of the whole world.
You are a conduit of the love of God. Share that love in everything you do.
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