Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. This verse is so powerful and we miss the simplicity of  it. It is Luke describing the body of Christ to the body of Christ. The word anointed means  “to furnish what is needed” , so God furnished His own flesh with what it needed to accomplish the mission it was sent for. Let’s see, hum… doing good seems to top the list but if we talk about doing good today we are considered to be steeped in legalisms or either we are not the evangelical Christian we are supposed to be. Doing good is not a sideline of our following Christ, it should be one of our primary reasons for being. We have made “winning the lost” our primary focus when in fact that was not the thrust of the early church. The “lost” were coming in because of what they were seeing and hearing from the followers of Christ. Their lives were primarily given for each other, (the household of faith), and from there they went out and did good. Until we return to the basics of our walk as followers of Christ and that is loving and taking care of each other we will never be able to “do good” and “relieve the pressure” from those who are being pressed by the devil. We first must learn to do good and relieve pressure from “the brethren”  before we can successfully minister to a world that is crying for help. And here we sit as the flesh of God on earth today, furnished with what is needed to accomplish what we were sent for. A journey from here to there is why we were sent and lives should be given to influence as many lives as possible for His Kingdom on the way. Hey here’s a neat idea, start just trying doing good, worked for that other guy!!! Till later.

Babu