Aeneas Healed, Residents Turn to God

Faith in Action

Self-controlled, Upright and Godly Faith

A Disciplined Faith

James 2:8-13 The Message

Acts 9:32-35 The Message

Tabitha

32-35 Peter went off on a mission to visit all the churches. In the course of his travels he arrived in Lydda and met with the believers there. He came across a man—his name was Aeneas—who had been in bed eight years paralyzed. Peter said, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” And he did it—jumped right out of bed. Everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him walking around and woke up to the fact that God was alive and active among them.

For Reflection

The Bible is filled with miraculous physical healings.  The failing of humankind is a desperate case.  This desperation is most visible when we are utterly without the strength to help ourselves.  It is then we turn to God.

We are quickly misled to assume that if we have the faith of Peter or Paul, we too could heal. Then when we fail to heal, we think we do not have sufficient faith.  We neglect to realize that they did not heal by their own power. Because Peter directed, Aeneas asked, and God gave. Physical healing is the sign that nothing is beyond the power of the Holy Spirit to heal, not even death.

As Peter instructed, we should use the power God gives us to foster, within our human limitations, spiritual and physical healing. 

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Make your life a creative gift or healing grace.

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