Sunday 1 Sep 2013

Sunday Reading: Acts 12:5-11

Key Verse: Acts 12:11
11  And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Devotion:
We like to marvel at the magicians who seem to be able to escape from various chains and other perilous looking devices that are keeping them, but they are illusionists that are showing us tricks that we do not see because we do not understand how they work. Peter, on the other hand, was no magician or illusionist! And yet he was able to get up, leave the chains that bound him, walk through a couple of prison wards, through locked iron gates, all without alerting any guards, and escape into the night air without even having to break into a sweat!

When God wants something to happen, we had better be sure that we are ready for what is going to happen because it is going to happen! Sometimes it is only when we see what God has done that we begin to realise just how awesome and powerful He is. Sometimes it is with unbelief that we lift up our prayers because we cannot see how God is going to answer them! But when God has set something in motion, we need to depend on Him and follow it through to completion… or be left behind…

Our God is not bound by the limits that we impose on Him! Just because we cannot see past the end of our nose does not mean that there is nothing there. God is God of the whole realm and not just God of what you can see and hear. Just because we have limits on what we see and hear does not limit the earth to just what is around us. The early sailors did not know what lay beyond the horizon, and many of them would not go too far because they lived in fear. It was the early explorers that went past the limits that found out there was a whole world out there! And yet God told us of the earth that hung in space right from an early age.

We need to open our eyes to God’s will and to His ways because they are far and beyond anything that we can imagine. Don’t try to limit Him so that you can make sense of what you can imagine because what you can imagine is very small in comparison to what God can do!

Points to Ponder:
Are you amazed at what others can do?

Do you think you know what God can do?