The Bible is timeless: it is relevant for today, just as it was yesterday, just as it will be tomorrow. I'm reading Acts chapter 3, and a note I penned in the margin some years ago rings truer now, if that's possible, than ever before. That's not just me saying it...a headline from a March 23, 2021 article in The Irish News reads:
"Google searches for 'hope' and 'prayer' peak while 'party' and 'festival' slump."
Acts 3: 1-8. This "certain man lame from his mother's womb...whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful...." had a great physical need. A desperate need. He was lame from birth and had to beg for a living. He needed physical healing, but what he really needed was Jesus Christ and to be spiritually healed from the "disease" of sin and the "prognosis" of death and eternal Hell because of it.
God used Peter and John to deliver physical healing in the name of Jesus, and we can infer that the man believed on Jesus for the forgiveness from his sins, since he is found standing with the Apostles before the Jewish religious rulers later in Acts 4:14.
My little margin note on Acts 3:1-8 says,
"The world desperately needs what we have: not silver or gold, but the gospel of Jesus Christ! Give it to them!!!"
They need what we Christians have. They need it just as desperately as the lame man did. Mary and I pray every morning before I leave for work, and usually I include a request that God raise up His church - His people - to be light and salt, to point people to the Lord Jesus and give them the gospel. He is our only hope, and this world's "party" is almost over!
That's why we go out and offer Bibles and prayer for our neighbors here in Iowa, or wherever we find ourselves. Christian, I hope you join us in sowing the word where God has you planted.
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