trophies

I was reading this this morning, and I thought I'd pass it along here ...

Acts 4 -
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. … they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, (Peter and John) that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

This is where a man was healed, and stood before the authorities, and they didn't know what to make of it.

But in a larger context, when we think of the life of a Christian ... isn’t it something?

Really … we stand before them whole, and they marvel.

We stand with others who are also trophies of His grace, and nobody can deny what’s been done.

Doesn’t it just bring people to your mind?

It does to mine!

I think of the parade of beloved brothers & sisters who are pictures of restoration, and wholeness ... and there's just no explanation for it, besides God. I think of issues in MY life that had no hope outside of His intervention.

Trinka