Angela’s Weblog

So the verses I liked today were 17-21

17“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, 20that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

What God was telling me in this passage was that even though stuff that happens is crappy, like the people condemning Jesus to the cross instead of a murderer(which was preeetty crappy at the time), He can use that as part of His plan. Those people had to turn against Jesus and send Him to the cross or else we would not have the salvation in Him that we have. All of that needed to happen to Jesus to get Him to the exact place where God needed Him to be. So, if stuff that is crappy is going on in my life, it’s probably stuff that needs to happen to get me to where God ultimately wants me to be. Christ didn’t have it easy in His time on earth and me, being someone whose goal is to be as Christ-like as possible, will probably have to deal with crap along the way in my walk that sucks, and hurts. I just need to keep in perspective that God’s got somewhere he wants me to be, I just need to keep following Him to get to it.