Acts 10:34-48 | Confronting Your Blind Spotsنموونە

Peter comes to see that God does not show favoritism. Here’s what he says: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.” (Acts 10:34-36).

God’s bringing salvation and his Spirit to Gentiles, and then counting them among his chosen people without having to go through the protocol in the Mosaic code that would make them Jews, was a blind spot for Peter.

This doesn’t sound like it should be a profound discovery (and maybe only because of what we’ve come to take for granted through what Peter came to learn), but for Peter, it was. Peter was a Jew. As a Jew, he knew God had specially selected his people – the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – to be a chosen people, a holy nation, a treasured possession among all nations on earth.

But God did a work before his eyes. And he allowed that to confront his former way of thinking. Peter will later go on to advocate before other Jewish Christians too that God is doing something new.

What are you learning about God? What assumptions is he confronting? What are you reading in the Bible that doesn’t quite fit your expectations? God will confront your blind spots. When he does, he invites us to see things his way – to see differently – and bow our knee before what he says rather than try to conform his ways to our way of seeing.

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