Acts 3
Along Your Daily Paths!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, July 6.
Do you believe there is work for you to do in the well-tread paths of your daily routines & lives?
Acts 3 (and into chapter 4) tells the story of the healing of a man who has been begging at the Temple gates for a very long time. Acts 3:1-2 sets up the story in a very peculiar way, “Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.”
This story is peculiar to me because it sounds so ordinary, so every day and that’s the point.
This is a well-traveled path for the disciples; they were entering the temple as they had with Jesus many times before. Jesus has walked by this man probably multiple times without healing him. This man is over 40 years old (see reference to him in Acts 4:22) and he had been brought to this gate of the temple daily for years. Even in the places where Jesus’ physical footprints were left there was still a work for the church to do.
This is peculiar because for some reason this man has been overlooked for years until the day Peter’s and John’s eyes were opened to his situation (Acts 3:4).
Are the eyes of your heart, as well as your physical ears and eyes, open so that God can use you in a similar way in your everyday life? Look with fresh eyes for those people in your daily life who need a touch from Jesus. Who or what have you been blind to until now?
Seize the moment and ask God to open your eyes to opportunities in your everyday life, along your well-tread paths.
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