Acts 8:8 KJV
And there was great joy in that city.
Poole remarks, "The despised Samaria rejoices while the formerly beloved Jerusalem repines at the Gospel; such strange alterations does the free grace of God make."
It serves us to remember when we are in any spiritual distress that there is another place where the grace of God is causing great joy. This is not to encourage us to run there because even in Samaria there was later persecution of their own, but it does demonstrate that God works as He will and where He will. The saints in Jerusalem were in no such straits through sin which they had done, but as a course of God's work in our world. We need not depress ourselves that our state is due to our somehow displeasing God; unless God has shown us sin we ought to repent of.
This also reminds me that, in those times when I am especially filled with joy, there is somewhere a believer who is suffering. In my time of blessing I would do very well to reach out to be a blessing to one who may not be so blessed right now.
And there was great joy in that city.
Poole remarks, "The despised Samaria rejoices while the formerly beloved Jerusalem repines at the Gospel; such strange alterations does the free grace of God make."
It serves us to remember when we are in any spiritual distress that there is another place where the grace of God is causing great joy. This is not to encourage us to run there because even in Samaria there was later persecution of their own, but it does demonstrate that God works as He will and where He will. The saints in Jerusalem were in no such straits through sin which they had done, but as a course of God's work in our world. We need not depress ourselves that our state is due to our somehow displeasing God; unless God has shown us sin we ought to repent of.
This also reminds me that, in those times when I am especially filled with joy, there is somewhere a believer who is suffering. In my time of blessing I would do very well to reach out to be a blessing to one who may not be so blessed right now.
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