Today’s reading is Acts 5.
I can’t help but laugh when I read Acts 5. I think about the Sadducees and the fact that they don’t believe in angels (see Acts 23:8). So they toss the apostles into jail, and they promptly escape. How? An angel let them out. HA!!! It also just blows my mind that when the Council hauls the apostles back into their meeting hall, they don’t ask, “How on earth did you get out of the prison?” That is the question that would have been burning in my mind. The doors were locked. The guards were still stationed outside. The apostles were gone. How did that happen? Nope. They don’t want to know. I guess that shouldn’t surprise me, they still aren’t dealing with the question of how Jesus escaped a locked and guarded tomb. Answering these questions might have implications and consequences they don’t want to consider. Instead, they just get mad that the apostles were back to teaching in the name of Jesus. Wow! This is just a reminder to me of the world we live in. Folks who don’t want to believe, won’t. Further, they won’t give us a fair shake about it. They won’t ask the questions that really matter or consider the topics that are really important. They will continue to sidestep and focus on the parts they don’t like. However, that doesn’t change the fact that there really are angels. That doesn’t change the fact that Jesus is real and He really rose from the dead. That doesn’t change the fact that Jesus is my King. Like the apostles, I can keep spreading the good news about Him no matter how others act. Praise the Lord!
Tomorrow’s reading is Acts 5.
A Word for Our Kids
Hey kids, if I learn anything from the Sadducees in today’s reading, it is simply this: just because I believe or don’t believe something, doesn’t make it so. I need to look at the evidence. The Sadducees didn’t believe in angels. That didn’t stop one from releasing the apostles. However, the Sadducees wouldn’t even consider the evidence of the jail break. I get it, Christianity isn’t true just because I believe. It’s not false just because someone else doesn’t. But what does the evidence indicate. It indicates that something happened on that Passover weekend nearly 2000 years ago that the opponents of the apostles couldn’t keep quiet. Something happened that changed the apostles’ lives. Something happened that prompted an exponentially increasing number of people to believe Jesus rose from the dead. It’s like finding out that men escaped a locked and guarded jail cell. I need to ask what happened. And if it isn’t exactly what they said it was, I at least have to come up with some answer better than just, “I don’t believe it.” Something happened. I can tell you what it is. Jesus escaped a locked and guarded tomb. He rose from the dead. Praise the Lord!
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