Description
Some of what you believe about God did not come from God.
You did not choose it. You inherited it. A quiet web of assumptions about who is welcome at the table and who is left waiting at the gate, about which people heaven takes seriously and which ones it walks past, about what a person must look like, sound like, or belong to before mercy will reach them. You absorbed it from sermons, from family, from the theological air you have breathed your whole life. And it sits beneath everything else you believe, shaping every prayer you whisper and every face your heart quietly flinches from.
Peter had the same problem. A lifetime of faithful obedience. A heart sincerely devoted. And one assumption so deep he never thought to question it, until the day God walked him into a room he should never have entered, placed him in front of people he should never have addressed, and asked him to say a thing he could not have said a week earlier.
This is Issue 1 of The Monthly Word, the opening instalment of a six-part journey through Acts 10:34. It will not flatter your inheritance. It will sit you down beside it and turn on the light.
The room is open. The only question is whether you have the courage to walk in.
