Simple little reminder, but our life and testimony will also go farther when we go through some stuff and even get some dents along the way.
Acts 25:24-27 says, “And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. 26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write. 27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.”
Paul had been arrested for preaching about Jesus. Festus didn’t know what to charge him with, and yet Paul continued to travel under arrest.
Paul got pretty dented up but the message of hope and salvation went farther and farther.
If Jesus is our Savior, we can keep going even when we get some dents along the way.