2/9/12

Good food... for a change


This looks like an actual location; I just wonder where it could be?  Anyway, whoever put this sign up needs to rethink their sales strategy.  If they serve good food now, what did they serve before this; bad food, terrible food, old food or how about disgusting food?  I think they mean that they have improved their menu; they have changed for the better!!!  Humm, that is something like what repentance means; a change (for the better)....

WEB: Acts Chapter 19

[11] God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, [12] so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out. [13] But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” [14] There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

[15] The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” [16] The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. [17] This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. [18] Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. [19] Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. [20] So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

God worked mightily through Paul and so, naturally, there were imitators.  But, their imitation proved less than successful.  This only attested to the genuineness of what God did through Paul and it had a profound effect.  People changed.  They repented of the things they had done and did away with their magic books and even now fifty thousand pieces of silver sounds like a lot of money.  And God was glorified!!!  On second thought, I really do like the sign, because it says that people can still change and says it publicly!!!

Commanded to love by Mark Copeland

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more than just a feeling; a command... Gary