Acts 28

N the Book of Acts,the 1st century disciples of Christ have a faith so intimate,that their lives take the Gospel of Christ to the world around them.The World is shook by the lives of Faith that the new believers live n their families & communities....to the point that our calendar was forever changed to “recognize” the reality of the Life of Christ;His Death;His Resurrection;& His Ascension!And,the most powerful empire of the time was changed by the faithfulness of the 1st century disciples of Christ.Yet,there are those that STILL chose not to believe,&this “choice” hardens their hearts to the point that they fail to see the overwhelming evidences of God and His Offer of Mercy & Grace through Christ alone!At the end of Acts,Paul reminds these people of God’s Sovereign knowledge of their harden hearts,& that fact the HE is still persistent&persevering to all so that no one can claim they did not hear;see;nor perceive that God is God,& that Jesus is The Saving Messiah & the Mercy&Grace through Christ that God’s Love extends to everyone.Paul quotes from Isaiah when he says,”So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, saying,

‘Go to this people and say:

“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand;And seeing you will see, and not perceive;For the hearts of this people have grown dull.Their ears are hard of hearing,And their eyes they have closed,Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,So that I should heal them.”’(Acts28:25-27).Dear Lord,soften my heart so I may truly understand the hearing & seeing evidences of Your Desire to heal every aspect of my life,through Christ & Your Word...and then have my heart/mind/life so changed by these...that I intimately know Your Presence n and around my life...as the first century disciples did.