Draw Near – 365 Guides to Greater Intimacy with GodSample

HERE IS PROOF They laughed at Thomas Edison. He had tried almost a thousand times to make a newfangled candle that was supposed to burn by electricity. They said he was a fool! It would never work. However, the hard work, tenacity, and genius of Edison paid off. He produced the electric candle, and the scoffers could not laugh at his light bulb. Paul knew the power of persistence and example. He knew if unbelievers could see the finished product of God's great mercy, they, too, might believe. Therefore, he reminds them that he was an example of God's great love. He had once persecuted the Christians. He had laughed at Christ. He had held the coats of the accusers who stoned Stephen. And if God could forgive him, then surely God could forgive anyone. The greatest argument of the power of Christ is the Christian. Your life is an example of His love and mercy. Even if we would never speak, our very life would be mute testimony of His goodness. This is why a personal testimony is always more effective in winning people to God than a brilliant theological argument.