JUST A REMINDER

Romans 15:14-19
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Paul’s Reason for Writing

14 I am fully convinced, my dear brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness. You know these things so well you can teach each other all about them. 15 Even so, I have been bold enough to write about some of these points, knowing that all you need is this reminder. For by God’s grace, 16 I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit. 17 So I have reason to be enthusiastic about all Christ Jesus has done through me in my service to God. 18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them. 19 They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.


We all need to be reminded periodically. We know what is good. We know what is right but we get caught up in the daily grind. Those right things become clouded by the ways of the world and we need a reminder. A daily dose of scripture is the perfect prescription for the clouds of the daily grind.

Paul was encouraged by the believers he was writing, fully convinced of their goodness. He was their messenger but he took no credit for their faith, rather giving all the glory to the power of God.

I too am encouraged by you. May your goodness change the world around you just as the faith of those early church believers changed their world and spread the Good News.