Jesus has given up His life to ransom the souls of men, but death could not hold Him. Risen again, He promises a power that will come over His people.
Despite the joy that He is alive and interceding in the heavenlies on their behalf, heartache has...
Mavy washed the dishes. Two of them. Was there a point in doing two dishes? She stared forlornly at the stack of plates that had once been in full use. Estelle came over with Samuel often enough, as she'd promised. She'd not expected for Robert to begin a new life, closer to Rhoda. Things were changing too fast for her liking.
Despite not having hit forty yet, with an older husband she felt as if they were turning mummified. Joel went out occasionally, but by and large, their time was spent at home. Aging.
It was lonesome.
Joel became silent, sullen.
Was he happy the house was deathly quiet? She couldn't read his face.
Even he had changed.
His facial features were stonier. News had come that Paul no longer persecuted Christians and they were happy, of course. But Paul had, in Joel's opinion, gone too far. It was one thing to fear the Jews, but to claim that salvation could be extended to the Gentiles? How dare he! And how dare he claim that it was in the plan of God?
Mavy disagreed, but kept quiet. There was no sense debating something that didn't concern them. They were both Jewish. Both saved. Both blessed to be out of persecution's way, at least for now.
In Philippi, Paul abode certain days, and on the sabbath day, they went to the riverside where they often resorted to pray and teach and speak to the women who came there, among which was Lydia. Well dressed and put together, she sold purple and worshipped God. Her heart did the Lord open and she listened intently to Paul.
When Lydia was baptized, along with her household, she begged to be of more use, "If you have seen that I am a woman of honor, faithful to the Lord, come and abide at my house." And thus she constrained them.
But as they were going to prayer, a certain girl, possessed with a spirit of the occult, of divination which brought her master's much money by her soothsaying met the men of God. She then followed them, "These men are God's servants, which show us the way of salvation!"
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