[Songs in the Night - July 24]
With great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Acts 4:33
OUR text tells us that this witnessing was done with
power, great power.
It was not made secondary to
politics, to social questions, to evolutionary theories or
higher critical dissertations.
It, and it alone, constituted
the apostolic theme.
And so it should be with
us.
The resurrection of the Lord and its value and
signification to the church and the world through the
divine plan should be ever prominent in our witnessing.
Not only by their words and logical presentations did the
apostles witness, but their lives were witnesses.
As the
apostle said, "Ye are our epistle,...known and read of
all men."
The lives of the Early Church were the special
witness to the Lord.
Without the consistency of
their lives and their consecration to the Lord and to the
truth, it is evident, the message would have had no
such import as it bore.
So it is with us today.
It is
well that we preach the Word.
It is still more important
that we live it.
But it is the ideal thing to both
preach and live the truth. Z'09-140 R4391:1 (Hymn 267)