All for Him
Acts 5:38
“Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.”
Gamaliel using the examples of Theudas and Judas advises not to harm the disciples because he feels that their campaign will not amount to anything if what they are doing is of man.
However, there has been much done in the name of man that has succeeded. History shows a trail of success and destruction by the works of man. Gamaliel you are wrong surely.
There are doctrines of man, campaigns publicised by man with the ideas of man, self-seeking, self-promoting views that are only about man that actually have grown into successful ideologies and people follow in droves.
There are many religions and cults that have survived and appear successful.
So in this life maybe we would disagree.
But what we do know is there will come a day when everything will be weighed in the balance.
When we die or when Jesus comes He will look at all we have done, He will judge the hidden purposes and the activity of our life. It will be then that we know what has failed and what has succeeded.
We can live today with the aim to do everything for the glory of God and not for our gain. That’s the point and Gamaliels wisdom helps us today. Check your motives and your plans. Do it all for Him!
Missions Paul 