When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

Filled with the Spirit—Armed, loaded, cocked, all that is left is aim and fire. That is the condition that I am in as a child of the living God; I need only the boldness, the willingness to aim and fire. What has dulled this sense of the immediacy of the Spirit to send a Word caliber bullet straight into the heart of an unbeliever? Do I want to be liked by this world more than I want to hear that "Well done, thou good and faithful servant"? I am ashamed to admit it must be so.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 87

Mid-day: 119:129-136

Evening: Psalm 13

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