Acts 1:18: “Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.”
M.E. is a bright child, but the light of her compassionate heart is the greatest enlightenment anyone could have.
My husband’s smart. He booked our tickets home in aisle seats, so our family of six was lined up 3 and 3, behind and across from one another. To be honest, I needed to do a lot of writing, so I would have preferred no nearby conversation, certainly not the one I heard our lovely, extroverted 18-year-old daughter having in the row behind me – it was too captivating to ignoreJ!
Somehow talk turned to religion. I think her seatmate was a former Catholic from Rome, now deciding between Catholicism and Baptist. Here’s some of what I heard Mary Elizabeth (great name for this discussionJ) say…
Her seatmate apparently mentioned praying to saints.
M.E.: “I don’t know about praying to Mary or praying to saints – that’s kind of interesting and I’ll have to learn more about it.” (Her seatmate seemed to agree.)
M.E.: “But I think that I should just pray to Jesus because he is the Savior, and praying to anyone or anything else seems like it might be idolatry. You know, it’s like how we went to this place in Athens where Paul told the people about the unknown gods they worshipped.”
The conversation continued and meandered, but her seatmate’s comment echoed in my heart, “Thank you so much for talking with me about this.”
Prophesying really means teaching the Word, telling the Story. We don’t have to speak funny languages, nor do we have to have a seminary degree (though knowing the Bible helps a lot.) What stranger, what friend, what enemy, would thank you for telling what you know of The Story to them today?
