I love the picture that this paints of a follower of Christ stretching out their hand and helping someone up from their situation and into the glory of God. Not that Peter was needed to bring this man to God, but simply Peter’s willingness to take this lame mans hand, and lift him up, walk him through the miraculous deeds that the Lord was preforming and was about to preform in his life.
I feel very strongly that discipleship is an integral part of the Christian walk. We are not meant to do it alone, we really aren’t from the beginning of time we see man’s inability to help himself. God in His faithfulness not only saves us but sends people into our lives to help lighted the load, people to take us by the hand and thrust us into the miraculous plans that the Lord has for our lives. I know for me personally I would not be sitting here today if it weren’t for a very special lily that the Lord sent into my life. A beautiful vibrant woman of God that saw me, the real me, and still loved me so fervently in a way that could only be from the Lord. She grabbed my hand and walked me through so much of my struggles, she knew exactly what to say and how to say it, not just because she herself had been through the very same things that I was still stumbling through but because she was filled with the Holy Spirit and she was willing to take the hand of a spiritually lame human being and help her into all that God had for her ( i.e me).
It’s not to say that she was the responsible one for the transformation, and the realization of Love that I came to, but because of her faithfulness I didn’t walk away from the Lord all those times that I wanted to give up, that I felt inadequate or unworthy of the calling God had on my life. She fought for me, and for the first time the true realization that somebody not only cared but loved me totally rocked my world. She was not forced to love me the way I felt my family was or faked it the way I felt a lot of my friends did, she had a genuine love for me, a Love that came solely from the God of Heaven, the God that loved me so much that He sent a tiny mirror my way to show me a glimmer of the Love that He had for me. And you know what....it worked?
It’s so important that we stay faithful and listen to the voice of the Lord, not only listen to His voice, but also dutifully obey Him. Take the extra time to talk to or pray for the person that God has placed in your heart that day, pour into the people around you, don’t hold back. It might be that conversation, or prayer or just simply the fact that someone actually paid attention and cared, that could completely change the person’s heart for the Lord, and by changing their perspective on Him you could possibly be paving the way for someone to completely surrender themselves to Him and His will for you life.
Application
I will stop glorifying busy, and when someone pops in to my mind I will grab them and pray with them, or have an actual conversation ( not the kind that is filled with small talk) with the person, and find out at least 1 unknown fact about their lives.
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