Distresses to be Addressed

Week 6 Day 6

Leviticus 13-14; Acts 17

Acts 17:16-17, 23
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. ¹⁷ So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 

For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

Paul was distressed, so he reasoned; reasoned about what the Athenians were ignorant about.

What distresses us?  What have we done about it?  In all that distresses us, we must be able to address it appropriately, as Paul did, then point it directly to the ultimate solution - Jesus Christ.

// BELLE:

There are, indeed, things that distresses my thinking based on what I see, hear, and feel (senses, for that matter).  What have I done about it?  Some have been addressed already; some I have yet to address.  For the ones I've already addressed, I must direct it back to Jesus Christ - the reason for all living.  And the ones I haven't addressed yet, I must do so immediately before it goes on longer.


// Lord, I know you're going to use me to help address the things that distress me based on what I have observed.  Thank you for the compassion that you've helped spring forth things that I must do towards it.  I pray that you will empower me and that I may respond to it with full obedience to what You want me to do.  I pray that you will guide me and that I will be sensitive fully to what you instruct me to do.  I lift this up to You in Jesus' name, amen.