New things

Acts 11
Peter Explains His Actions

1The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3and said, "You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them."

I posted a blog about this situation the other day, but in my daily reading I came back to the same narrative, or actually the followup narrative wherein Peter explains himself.

I find it most interesting that Peter even HAD to explain himself - but he did, and he did a good job of it: the men who began by criticizing him ended up convinced that God was doing a new thing.

How often do we look at something that God is doing in our life, our society, or even our church and begin by criticizing? We may even have some reason to do so - but God is about new things. You and I were made new when we set Christ as Lord in our lives - you would think we would be more geared up for new things.

Well - grow in God, and watch for Him to do new things around you -
And IN you.