Acts 18:18-22
Sometimes God brings a person into your life and as a result your life is never the same again. Upon leaving high school I attended Michigan Tech. It’s about as far north as you can go and still be in the United States. But it was an excellent school for geology, which is what I wanted to study. Starting the same year as I did, and also in geology, was Ken from Lansing, Michigan.
As a part of the geology program, following your sophomore year you were required to attend summer school, which included intensive fieldwork. Ken and I attended this program the summer of 1970. Previous to this, I never really knew Ken but that would soon change and as a result, my life would never be the same.
The ratio of guys to girls attending Tech was 10 to 1 – not very good odds. Ken and I became friends during summer school and he invited me to church. When we went I thought I’d died and gone to heaven, as there was an over-abundance of very attractive girls. Needless to say, anytime Ken invited me to go - I was there. As a result, Ken shared the Gospel with me and I invited Christ into my life.
That summer was phenomenal! Not just because of the cute girls, but because of my newly found personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The following summer Ken invited me to a program in Lansing. That fall, I stayed in Lansing and eventually met my wife and started my career in full time urban youth ministry.
The passage today appears to be mostly traveling details about Paul’s second missionary trip, and the fact that he got a haircut. But Luke mentions that Priscilla and Aquila, who had been exiled from Rome, left Corinth with Paul. Apparently just another detail amongst many with no special significance attached to it, except for the fact that Paul then leaves them in Ephesus. While there, they meet Apollos and significantly influence his ministry, which eventually spreads to Corinth.
God brings people into our lives at just the right time. He uses them in our life and in turn he uses us in the lives of others. As God brought Ken into my life, he brought me into Jeff's life. He was one of the boys in my ministry. Over 30 years later Jeff became a pastor and started a church. Now he is touching the lives of others for Christ.
Who has God brought into your life? How has He used you in the lives of others? Apparently, there was more going on in this passage than just Paul getting a haircut.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2018%3A18-22&version=NIV;MSG
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Acts.18.18-Acts.18.22
1 comment:
Great post today. We all have that 'someone' who made a difference for us and our future. Mine was Joyce. I didn't like Joyce much, but God still used her to reach me. This is a long story, but the point is we never know who that person might be or who we might be to someone else. We don't have to like them, we just have to be available. God will do the rest.
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