Paul Can Talk The Ear Off A Cornstalk

Today's Reading: Job 15; Acts 19; Acts 20

SCRIPTURE: Acts 20:6-12

“Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.  Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!"  Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left.  The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.”

OBSERVATION:

This stands out to me mainly because it is hilarious.  The dude fell asleep because “Paul talked on and on.”  HAHA!  Not only did he fall asleep but he fell to his death.  CRAZY!!!

Even crazier is that Paul didn’t miss a beat.  He went downstairs and raised the guy from the dead and continued on and on with his talking and eating until daylight came.  Was this an appropriate reaction to what just happened?  It seems like too normal a behavior for such a very abnormal circumstance.  Paul preaches the guys to death and then simply says “My bad.  I fix it.”  Was the miraculous such an ongoing thing that it became natural instead if just supernatural?  If that’s possible I want it.

APPLICATION:

I want the miraculous to be normal in my life.  It seems that we have to puff up the little things that happen in our lives to make them of miraculous proportion.  I want the miraculous presence and power of God so strong in my life that when something happens we simply say “Yep, Jesus is doing His thing again.”  I’m sure the miraculous is there to experience.  After all Jesus didn’t change His business or even His mission statement.  He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  I want to believe for things of miraculous proportion.

PRAYER:

Father, you are able.  You can.  You are.  Help me to believe.  Help the supernatural be natural in my life.  I don’t want to seek the power and miss your presence, but I do want to see the sick healed and the like.  In Jesus name - AMEN!!!