You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain… (John 15:16)
But the Lord said to him, “Go…” (Acts 9:15)
In this passage, we see the lives of two ordinary disciples, Ananias and Tabitha.
As I’ve mentioned before, “disciples” and “Christians” are essentially the same thing. So I could say that we are looking at the lives of two ordinary Christians.
And just as Jesus chose his 12 apostles and appointed them to go and bear fruit, so he chose Ananias and Tabitha to do the same.
They were not to simply stay at home worshiping God every day. They were to go out into the world and bear fruit, fruit that would remain.
And that’s what they did.
Ananias went and touched a man named Saul. And through Saul, the Roman Empire was turned upside down for Christ.
For Tabitha, she touched life after life, making a difference in the people around her.
Ananias and Tabitha were not “super Christians.”
Aside from Paul’s testimony, we no longer hear Ananias’ name and Tabitha’s name never comes up again in the Bible. But they went out into the world, touching people, bearing fruit that lasted.
That’s the life each and every one of us are called to as Christians. To go. And bear fruit.
That’s the “normal Christian” life.
Is that the life you’re living?
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