3 Gifts found in Bible Reading

I read Acts 16-17 today.  Sometimes gifts come in the form of reassurance.  Today I read about how Paul and Silas were doing the will of God and you would think that if you are doing what God wants, that you're going to have this glowing aura of protection and blessing on your life.  Everything you touch will turn into gold and everything smells like roses kind of world.  Well, not so much.

Paul and Silas were doing everything God wanted and they had it bad.  They were stripped and beaten with rods (Acts 16:22), they were thrown into prison (Acts 16:23), "Jason's" family was thrown into jail because the people thought he let Paul and Silas stay in his home.

My three lessons I learned today:

1. Sometimes you do God's will and bad things still happen. (Acts 16:19)
2. And then sometimes those bad consequences result in a miracle. (Acts 16:25-26)
3. God is not far from any one of us. (Acts 17:27)

Those were my three things from reading today.  I hope they encouraged you somehow!