“When they heard this, they had no further objections
and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance
that leads to life.”
Acts 11:18
To their credit, as you read the first 17 verses of
Acts chapter eleven, we find that those who criticized Peter had a change of
heart (as read above) after hearing Peter’s testimony.
Those circumcised believers could have easily been
overtaken by religious zealousness and tradition to continue in opposition to
what God had done.
Like an episode of the old Lucy show with Ricky
saying:
“Lucy, you have some ‘splainen’ to do!” they
confronted Peter.
But they listened and responded as we read in verse
18.
When faced with the truth it says:
“...they had no further objections and praised God...”
We cannot minimize what a huge shift in thinking this
was for them.
They had been taught all of their lives thinking that
was quite different from what they were now seeing and hearing.
May we each be so willing to respond likewise when God
dramatically tips over our apple carts of tradition with His truth!
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