Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead? Acts 26:8

Paul has been in prison for two years. Finally, he is brought before King Agrippa to make a defense for the Jews’ accusations. In exasperation, Paul cries out this question in Acts 26:8. This same question can be applied to our faith today.

Disbelief is the greatest harm to our faith. It is not enough to have just had faith once, but a life following Christ is a life where we must continually have faith that He is for and not against us.

Why are we so quick to doubt that God is able to do what He has done in the past today? If all the power of God was used to raise Christ from the dead thousands of years ago, why can’t we believe that that same power is available to change us today?

Notice the tense of the verb in the second part of the verse: raises. God raises. It doesn’t say God raiseD (intentional capitalization). God’s power is still at work and fully able to raise the dead.

The God of yesterday is the God of today. His work is not complete yet. He can raise a body from the dead physically as well as metaphorically. When we first believed, Christ raised our souls from death to life. In the same way, He has the power to raise a weak faith from death to life.

We should not be like the Jews who doubted Paul. Their unbelief caused them to miss out on what they had been waiting for generations for: their messiah. We must guard against our unbelief.

To think that something is too incredible or too hard for God to heal, provide, forgive, etc. etc. is to be like the Jews. Don’t miss out on the work your savior is doing in your life because you are too busy telling yourself that He isn’t or can’t do it.

God is able to do the same things He did for the apostles for you. Check your unbelief at the door and equip yourself with the truth that this God who raised this Christ from the dead for you is the same God who will raise you from death to life everyday until His work is complete in you.

Father,

We thank you so much for the amazing work you have done through the ages. You sent your Christ to us. You brought Him from death to life and you are doing the same in each of us each day. Help us to guard against the unbelief of the Pharisees. Nothing is too incredible or too hard or too much for you to handle. You are so much greater than anything in this world. We ask that you would increase our faith and equip us with the truth of your word to defeat our disbelief. Forgive us for these moments of weakness and empower us to glorify you. Amen.

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