Soul Sister Time

            Humility and tears don’t sound like something we would strive for, do they?   Most of us concur that life is found avoiding humility and tears.   The apostle Paul makes some very bold statements in the New Testament books he wrote.   Some wish that he never said what he said about women especially.   In Acts 20:19, Luke quoted his description of ministry when he wrote Paul’s words: I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents .             Paul’s audience was the elders from Ephesus.   These were church leaders who could better comprehend how humility and tears are part of serving God.   Perhaps they needed to hear it again.   They needed to hear it from the one who taught them all he knew about loving and serving God.   These words were most ...