Death or Glory

"Then a voice came: "Go to it, Peter—kill and eat."
Peter said, "Oh, no, Lord. I've never so much as tasted food that was not kosher."
The voice came a second time: "If God says it's okay, it's okay." Acts 10:13-15

It was an interesting group of chapters today with two seemingly different Gods talking. In Exodus 35 the order came out - if someone works on the Sabbath they must be put to death. People couldn't even light a fire on the Sabbath.

Then in Acts there is Peter who has only ever eaten kosher food being told to eat none kosher food. No wonder he was reluctant given that he comes from a tradition where even breathing the wrong way in Old Testament times was likely to get you killed.

Peter received a word from a voice that he identified as the Lord, "If God says it's okay, it's okay".

It's sometimes a bit difficult to know exactly what God is asking us to do, but it's likely that God, at some time, will ask us to do something quite radically different to what we think, or have been brought up to believe, is correct.

If God says it's okay, it's okay.

Help me God to have the courage to act when you tell me to do something which, for whatever reason, doesn't seem right to me.