Acts 1:1. “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,”
DO AND TEACH The things that He did began long ago – Way back before the foundations of earth. God carefully planned things, that He might show, His love, beginning with Jesus’ miraculous birth. More than creation, and more than maintaining, All the works of His word and His power; Are the works Jesus did, God’s grace revealing, From His birth to His death’s final hour. He lived what He taught, there was never a doubt, That His person was unique among men. In every act that He did and word that He taught, There was evidence He was God’s unique Son. He knew what His work was when He came here to live, And He knew when He had finished each task. The truths that He taught, and His life that He gave, Made it possible for our understanding to grasp. Whether we read of His acts or the parables He told, The evidence is plain enough for each one to find - The way of salvation and, in faith we take hold, Of the truths God reveals to our minds.
“Father, I can lay hold in faith on all the things I read in the scriptures as the Holy Spirit makes things plain. This book of Acts is so practical that even a simple person like me can fit into the truths and actions of those who had seen and heard the Lord when He was here. My concern is that I live by faith in the Son of God each and every day, In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”