While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s Portico, utterly astonished. When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. (Acts 3:11-16, NRSV)
Why are they amazed?
Why are we amazed?
We don’t think the lame should be miraculously cured. We’ve never seen it so it can’t be.
We get hung up on the I haven’t seen it so it can’t be. We like to put God in our neat little box and keep Him tucked away where He won’t change our world with things we don’t understand.
So why can’t we believe things we’ve never seen?
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