Just Some Thoughts
While
Reading Acts 3:1-10, the healing of the lame man it occurred to me there were
two miracles here, one we immediately think of and one we may not think of quickly.
The Scripture states “2And a man who had been lame from his
mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every
day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful” The man was lame from
birth. He never learned to walk. He was carried everywhere he went. As he was
begging, Peter and John passed by, and, in the name of Jesus, the man was
healed. The miracle we see quickly is the fact he was healed and, as verse 8
says, “8With a leap he stood upright and began to
walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising
God.” This is the second miracle we may not see as quickly. Verse 2 tells
us he was born lame, he would never have learned to walk but here he is “walking
and leaping”! How did he know how to walk or leap since he had never been able
to do so in his 40 years of life? The answer is that God healed him COMPLETELY!!
He was not just healed of his lameness but healed of what else was missing in
his life, knowing how to walk. He was healed into completeness.
A
second thought has to do with sickness (pandemics) and sin. Serious disease and
sickness have been with humans since Adam and Eve first rebelled against God’s
Word. It is a result of sin. As I was thinking about Covid my mind went to
other sicknesses and pandemics. When considering the Black Death, Spanish Flu,
cancer, flu, Covid, etc. I realized they and sin have much in common. As these diseases
enter the world and spread rapidly, so does sin. As these diseases make people
very physically ill so sin makes people very spiritually ill. As disease is
contagious so sin can be contagious. As disease affects those around the one
having the disease so does sin. When humans think they have a handle on a
disease and a cure a new variant (mutation) develops which must be dealt with
o more people die. So it is with sin. What we see in the spiritual with sin is
mirrored in the physical with disease.
