Wonder and Astonishment

Question:  Have you ever seen something that filled you with wonder and astonishment and left you just amazed, something that was so spectacular that it was very hard to believe?  I want to tell you about a man in the word of God who was lame from birth, which is only one out of so many other stories I could tell you about.

This story is found in Acts 3:1-10, please read all about it, “Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the time of prayer. A man lame from birth was being carried—every day they used to put him at the Temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg for tzedakah from those entering the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he began asking to receive tzedakah. But Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, ‘Look at us!’ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, ‘Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give to you—in the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach ha-Natzrati, get up and walk!’ Then grabbing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately the man’s feet and ankles were made strong. Jumping up, he stood and began walking; and he went with them into the Temple, walking and leaping and praising God! Now all the people saw him walking and praising God. They began to realize he was the one who used to sit begging for tzedakah at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment over what had happened to him.”

Now think of this, this man had never, ever walked in his life, he had been carried around all his life and now he is walking and leaping and praising God.  While we set back and read about these things we don’t normally get  to excited about what took place because we either don’t believe it or we have never experienced a miraculous healing before or maybe we are just not into what is really going on here or it happened so long ago.  Or maybe we might be just like the people in the story, filled with wonder and astonishment over what we are reading especially if we believe the story is true.  

Think of this, we have seen movies that showed fake healers, so we may have a hard time deciphering the real from the fake.  You may have seen or heard of fake healings in the church in the past and you are completely turned off when you hear about miraculous healings today, but I believe that there have been many miraculously healed today, including me, praise the Lord.  Maybe that is why I think differently about these stories.  Just try to put yourself in this man’s shoes, if you can, then think about what your response might be.  Maybe only the people that have had a miraculous healing can really understand what this man felt like.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!