RE Verse reading–Acts 28:17-31 (day three) God used poverty and weakness for his own entrance into the world, but God doesn’t always work through such lowly means. When the times are right for world-shifting movements, he often employs significant influencers of thought to herald his work. Such an influencer was Paul. Here was an intellectual colossus, holding forth at the world center for commerce, trade, and ideas. Yes, he was a prisoner, but that doesn’t always mean a person is socially marginalized. Some of history’s most profound shapers come to mind: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr.—no strangers to incarceration. Paul changed the world in chains, God helping him. Will you pray that God would usher more providentially placed highly influential disciples into the public square in our own society?
