Daily Devotional--7/22/2010

Acts 16:11-15

¹¹From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis. ¹²From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

¹³On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ¹⁴One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message. ¹⁵When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.

In verse 15 we see Lydia inviting Paul, Silas, and Timothy to her home after she receives the message and is baptized.

• Do you have the kind of hospitality where people are often invited to your home?
• Why did she invite them to come to her home?
• Who do you know that you feel like you should invite to your home for a meal?