Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven: For there is no other God, nor ever was before, nor shall be hereafter, but God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, in whom all things began, whose are all things, as we have been taught; and his son Jesus Christ, who manifestly always existed with the Father, before the beginning of time in the spirit with the Father, indescribably begotten before all things, and all things visible and invisible were made by him. He was made man, conquered death and was received into Heaven, to the Father who gave him all power over every name in Heaven and on Earth and in Hell, so that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and God, in whom we believe. And we look to his imminent coming again, the judge of the living and the dead, who will render to each according to his deeds. And he poured out his Holy Spirit on us in abundance, the gift and pledge of immortality, which makes the believers and the obedient into sons of God and co-heirs of Christ who is revealed, and we worship one God in the Trinity of holy name.
Can’t keep silent. Today we some how believe it is wrong to talk about the acts of God in our lives. I grew up in a church where on Wednesday nights and some times Sunday nights people stood and told their testimonies. You don’t hear Christians telling other Christians what God has done in their lives much any more.
The Lord answers prayers in my life. He rescues me from the jams I get myself into. He has prepared me before hand for a crisis I will be asked to face. But the Lord also does sweet miracles (God kisses) that may not seem like big things to others but mean all the world to me. Over and over God cares for me, but it is seldom I tell people.
Patrick can’t help but tell others about what God has done for him. He says it is what is owed to God.
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven:
Jesus said
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Why I am so silent when I should be shouting out everything my Lord has done for me? Why do I allow our society to coward me into silence? Why do we not practice sharing what God has done in our lives with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Patrick continues
He himself said through the prophet: “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me [Psalm 50:15].” And again: “It is right to reveal and publish abroad the works of God.”
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