Acts 21.37 - Workin’ Men

Acts 21.37 - Workin’ Men

Two cogs in ‘Pax Romana’ interlock the mighty wheels of Divine Providence – one soldier, one politician. Their posting to Judea, very far from Rome, must have seemed a curse. They ruled a people who loathed their Empire.  One State employee is self-serving, the other self-sacrificing. Far from the gaze of Caesar, who would know if Governor Felix made a little extra money on the side? Why should Commander Claudius Lysias risk lives for an unknown man nearly torn apart by a Jewish mob? Both deeds of these workin’ men are seen by God and recorded in Scripture. What we do, even when we think nobody notices, matters. Like Esther we are born “for a time such as this.” The mighty wheels of Divine Providence make their appointed turns, and our faithfulness and our failures are recorded by our Sovereign God. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men…It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians 3.23,24).