Between a rock and a hard place

Sunday May 6th, Acts 11: 4 Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it had happened: 5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.' 8 "I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' 9 "The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Peter experienced the expanded view of God’s kingdom. He has lived with Simon the tanner, healed a woman named Dorcus and now God is leading him to see once again the expanse of God’s kingdom. Peter is also left trying to explain all this to others. Most of us, when confronted with the expanse of God’s kingdom may at first say Wow, and then after a while come to our senses and say, “but surely you don’t mean them.” Sometimes God has used a sheet to show his vision for the kingdom, most of the time he just says, go up to that line you have drawn and step across, and when you had drawn a new line, step across that one also.