Can others perceive that you have been with Jesus? My mother use to tell me, “You act like who you hang out with.” Of course my mother said a lot of things. Yep I can see the look on your face right now as you make a mental scan of all the things your mother said. Okay now you’re smiling. I wish you were writing this blog so I could read some of things your mom said. Mothers are like that…but what about what they said? Is there truth in their words? I believe there is because they know you, the real you--the “who” you are when no one is looking, you.
Who we are speaks. It speaks of who we are in both what we know and the spirit in which we do something. We may know how to say, “I’m sorry”, but if we do it with baited breathe the onlooker will perceive that we are anything but sorry.
Acts 4:13 (NKJV)” 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”
Immediately after Jesus healed someone the war was on. The disciples who hung out with Jesus and saw the miracle and could not deny the things they had seen. Although threatened by the authorities of the day Peter and John refused to be intimidated.
Acts 4:14(NKJV)” 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.”
It does matter who you hang out with. Mother was right. Who in your life are having the greatest effect on your spirit and what you say and do? Company matters. Time has an effect.
Acts 4:18-20 (NKJV) “…Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
When wrongly accused and threatened do as the disciples did and pray. Prayer matters. Hang with the crowd going somewhere and doing things that matter. And remember what Momma said.
Acts 4:29 (NKJV) “29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,”
Who we are speaks. It speaks of who we are in both what we know and the spirit in which we do something. We may know how to say, “I’m sorry”, but if we do it with baited breathe the onlooker will perceive that we are anything but sorry.
Acts 4:13 (NKJV)” 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”
Immediately after Jesus healed someone the war was on. The disciples who hung out with Jesus and saw the miracle and could not deny the things they had seen. Although threatened by the authorities of the day Peter and John refused to be intimidated.
Acts 4:14(NKJV)” 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.”
It does matter who you hang out with. Mother was right. Who in your life are having the greatest effect on your spirit and what you say and do? Company matters. Time has an effect.
Acts 4:18-20 (NKJV) “…Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
When wrongly accused and threatened do as the disciples did and pray. Prayer matters. Hang with the crowd going somewhere and doing things that matter. And remember what Momma said.
Acts 4:29 (NKJV) “29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,”
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