Saturday, March 26, 2011

LAME

Acts chapter 3 tells a story about Peter and John going to the temple to pray at about 3:00 in the afternoon. On their way, they encounter a man sitting and begging at the temple gate. He's been carried there every day for forty years.

The lame guy reaches out his hand to ask for alms and Peter says to him: 'Got no cash, bro - but here's what I do have -- in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk.' And sure enough, he did. The next thing we know the guy is jumping and going crazy with joy, skipping right into the temple going berserk at this amazing, wonderful, life-altering thing that had happened to him.

I don't think the lame man had any idea of the change that was ahead for him that day at 3:00. He never dreamed he would arrive at the temple gate unable to walk and leave leaping and thanking God.

Not long after this, thousands of people heard the story of the Gospel and came to faith. Same thing with them. No idea when they woke up that this would be the day that amazing grace opened their eyes and forever dramatically changed them.

But it did.

And that's exactly what you and I have to share with our cities and all the places God will eventually send us to.

And be blessed.

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