A Message
That Is Able
To Build You Up
And now I commend you to God and to
the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give
you the inheritance among all who are sanctified. I coveted no one’s silver or
gold or clothing. You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to
support myself and my companions. In all this I have given you an example that
by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus,
for he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
When he had finished speaking, he
knelt down with them all and prayed. There was much weeping among them all;
they embraced Paul and kissed him, grieving especially because of what he had said, that they would not see him again. Then they brought
him to the worship.
Paul, when he was still Saul believed
that everything was his. He took personal pleasure in going after Christians.
But he changed, as all of us do when we are reborn into Christ. God, in His
grace, had changed Paul. Instead of remaining a coveting, grasping man, he
became a truly generous man. You should also let God’s grace work in your life.
Allow our Lord Jesus Christ to create a new giving heart in you. Gratefulness
overcomes selfishness.