Wed.’s Devo - Share Your Story

Read: 2 Kings 22:3-23:30; Acts 21:37-22:16; Psalm 1:1-6; Provers 18:11-12
Two hundred years before in 1 Kings 13:2, an unnamed prophet had prophesied that a king named Josiah from the house of David would offer the bones of the false priests on the Lord’s altar and today was that fulfilled. Josiah became king at the age of 6 and was given a copy of the law. He read it and cleaned house and got all the idol worship out of the temple and burned them in the Kidron Valley. He had all the people meet and listen to the words of the law and agree to follow them. He brought revival like no other king had done. He followed the worship of David in all that David had done and reinstituted the Passover.
They were going through the sepulchers of the false prophets, burning their bones when they came upon one that was very decorated and Josiah asked whose it was. He was told that it was the prophet who had prophesied about him so he told them not to burn his bones.
In Acts, there was so much confusion that the officer who arrested Paul thought he was an Egyptian. When he found out he was a Jew from Tarsus he allowed him to speak to the people. When he began in Hebrew, they stopped yelling to listen. He told them his story how he had been tutored by the famous Gamaliel as a child. Through Gamaliel he had learned the law of Moses and the scriptures. When Jesus’ followers started telling others about Jesus, who they said had risen from the dead and was the Messiah, he was the first to start persecuting them and killing them. Then one day on his way to kill more of them, a great light came down from heaven which blinded him. He was taken to a man’s house by the name of Ananias who was also a great believer in the law. Ananias prayed that he would receive my sight and he instantly was able to see again. He did this in the name of Jesus and told me to repent and be baptized.
There is nothing more powerful than a person’s story of redemption. Paul had a powerful one and so do we. It may not be that demonstrative but it is exactly what it is suppose to be for the people we will meet. God tailors our lives to fit in the place where he puts us in, so we just need to share it.
Lord, help us to be bold in sharing our story with those we meet. It is your story in us.