Christian Commentary Encouraging Devotions

"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—

you and your household." Acts 16:30-31

Wait! It's that simple? Believe?

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,

give yourself up to Him,

take yourself out of your own keeping

and entrust yourself into His keeping

and you will be saved,

and this applies both to you and your household as well.

What a promise!

You won't hear about this promise and many more unless...

you read His Word.

And reading it daily is the best.

The people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica,

and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message.

They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. Acts 17:11

He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.

His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—

though he is not far from any one of us.

For in him we live and move and exist.

In him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:25-28

I have declared to everyone that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

Urging everyone to a radical life-change before God and an equally radical trust in our Lord Jesus. Acts 20:21

I never shrank or kept back or fell short from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan and counsel of God. Acts. 20:27

God DOES have a plan and a purpose.

Are you reading about it...daily?

Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself

mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires,

endeavoring in all respects to have a clear, unshaken, blameless conscience,

void of offense toward God and toward men. Acts 24:16

I do my level best to keep a clear conscience before God and my neighbors in everything I do.

To open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light,

and from the power of Satan to God,

to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light,

and choose light,

see the difference between Satan and God,

and choose God.

so that they may receive forgiveness of sins

and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus.

I preached that they should repent and turn to God

and prove their repentance by their deeds. Acts 26:18-20

Here's another "What must I do?"...

prove their repentance by their deeds = do works and live lives consistent with and worthy of their repentance.

It's all about a life-change—

a radical turn to God and everything it means in everyday life.