I was listening to a minister online earlier this week and he brought up the story in Acts 3 about Peter and John and the crippled man sitting outside the temple gate. The crippled man was begging for money, but Peter didn't have any money to give him on that particular day. And while that money would make Peter feel good about himself, it really wouldn't solve this crippled man's real need.
I thought to myself, how often do I see the enormous need around me, within my community, and spend massive amounts of energy to simply put a Band-Aid on things? How often do I labor to fix things that in the end really doesn't fix anything? Peter offered this man something that was life changing. He offered this man, something that dealt with his deepest need. What Peter had is what we all have as ministers of the gospel. We have residing in us a power to transform the world around us. The world has nothing more than superficial solutions to what cripples those within our communities. I want to encourage you today to forget about what you don't have and to remember that what you do have is a power to transform those in your communities that are wounded, crippled, blinded, and bound by the enemy.
I thought to myself, how often do I see the enormous need around me, within my community, and spend massive amounts of energy to simply put a Band-Aid on things? How often do I labor to fix things that in the end really doesn't fix anything? Peter offered this man something that was life changing. He offered this man, something that dealt with his deepest need. What Peter had is what we all have as ministers of the gospel. We have residing in us a power to transform the world around us. The world has nothing more than superficial solutions to what cripples those within our communities. I want to encourage you today to forget about what you don't have and to remember that what you do have is a power to transform those in your communities that are wounded, crippled, blinded, and bound by the enemy.
