<\/p>\n
Can God do anything good with me?<\/p>\n
We might ask this question when we feel as if we are beyond God\u2019s help. We see our flaws and mistakes, and we wonder how God could even want to use us for his purposes.<\/p>\n
In our text today we see Peter preaching to the crowds that are gathered in Jerusalem for the annual harvest celebration. This is the same Peter who, about 50 days earlier, had lied three times about Jesus, saying that he didn\u2019t know Jesus at all (Mark 14:66-72).<\/p>\n
But now Peter was restored, since the resurrected Jesus had met with him at the Sea of Galilee (John 21:15-19). And in today\u2019s text we read that Peter and the other apostles were now filled with the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
Peter became a new creation, and in this new state of being \u201cin Christ,\u201d Peter\u2019s life pointed to the remaking of all creation.<\/p>\n
The merely brash Peter became the wise preacher Peter. Earlier he had not understood the prophets\u2019 message about the Messiah, but now he was clear and on point. At one time Peter\u2019s passion simply blurted. But now in his passion he could convict and invite!<\/p>\n
God is in the business of healing people, pouring grace into them, and recommissioning them. This includes me and you. The Lord sees you, loves you, and has plans for you. Trust him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can God do anything good with me? We might ask this question when we feel as if we are beyond God\u2019s help. We see our flaws and mistakes, and we wonder how God could even want to use us for his purposes. In our text today we see Peter preaching to the crowds that are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[956,86,269,344,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-26470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-creation","9":"tag-daily","10":"tag-devotional","11":"tag-peter","12":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}