Acts 22-28: What Are You Waiting For?

“Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’  - Acts 22:14-16 NIV

These words of Ananias to Paul after he had been struck blind on the road to Damascus could have been spoken to any of us.  God has chosen us to know his will and to see the truth in his Son.  At some point in our lives, all of us who believe, were struck blind and suddenly, the scales rolled off of our eyes and we could see.  It may have been in a church service, it may have been in prayer with a friend, it may have been walking in solitary,or  it may have been reading a book on our sofa, but we all received our sight.  What are we waiting for?  God has called all of us to be witnesses of what we have seen.  We don't need an Ananias to tell us to get up.  We just need to get on with whatever God called us to do.  With the boldness and determination of Paul, we should be witnesses to what we have seen and heard.

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