Acts 3:1-10 ”Look at Us”

In the text under discussion Luke tells us about a lame beggar sitting by the beautiful gate at the entrance to the Temple. He used to sit there begging from those who went to the afternoon prayer. Why did he sit there? How did he get there?

Well Peter and John went to pray and Peter healed him. This great miracle ignited a great unsettlement in Jerusalem, because nobody could deny the miracle. But how did God use this miracle, where did it lead Peter? How did it advance the Gospel?

This is a powerful and spiritually loaded story that teaches us numerous lessons about beggars, the true help that people need, and also about how God works in us and trough us to advance an agenda that is bigger than our own individual lives.