A Devotional Verse From The Book Of Romans

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.     Romans 1:16

All of us who believe and preach the gospel of Christ are in the same boat as the apostle Paul. In those days there were two kinds of religious people in the world: God’s chosen people the Jews, and all the pagans and nonbelievers of the Jewish God who fell under the label Gentiles or Greeks. Both of these groups rejected the gospel, one because the gospel of Christ is an issue of the faith and not of law, and the other because they saw the message as foolishness, that a man should be God in the flesh, die and come alive again. I can imagine some of the slurs against Paul. “How can you be so foolish and unpatriotic as to go beyond your national, historic faith, as we see it? You are not being loyal to your people. You should be ashamed of yourself.” “How can you be so anti-intellectual as to believe the story of a dead man rising, and that by having faith in him you will be put right with God? You should be ashamed to preach that simple story.” And those two statements are probably very mild as compared to what was actually said against Paul and the gospel of Christ. But Paul’s reply was “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.” He goes on to say, in so many words, that whether others like it or not, God uses this story as the dynamite power to break the power of sin, and bring the believer into salvation. Well, that’s where we all are, those of us who preach the biblical gospel of Christ, no matter what you think of us we are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ