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Over 40...       Acts 4:22   Dr. David A. Baillie

7/1/2019

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Every now and then as I'm reading through scripture I come across a verse I've never paid attention to before that just makes me laugh a little.   This coming weekend in our services we will be studying the 4th Chapter of Acts as we head into the final two weeks of our series entitled Inception.   As I was reading this morning I came across this verse:

For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.   v. 22

I have no idea why the author had to point out the age of this man. In fact, as someone who is, um,  over 40, I find it at least a little disconcerting in some ways.   This past weekend I had that chance to attend the wedding of a girl who was one of the flower girls at my wedding.  Now she is all grown up, and while we were there my daughter said to me, "Wow, everyone who is here is young."

Now that wasn't exactly true, but it in many ways it sure seemed so.  So i guess maybe I'm just feeling old as i write this morning.  But then I look at that verse again, and I think what Luke (whom I believe wrote Acts) is reminding us of is the fact that Christ can give us new life and new inspiration no matter what age we are.  This weekend I got to spend time with people from my past, but while I was away on Sunday the church voted to take away the interim title, and just make it Pastor, and they helped change my future.

So like the man in the story in Acts I am not lost in the past, but rather I am excited about the future.  He could suddenly walk and leap and had his whole life ahead of him.  I am excited about what lies ahead.  The path has taken so many twists and turns over the years, but God has the future and that is where our focus needs to be, on what God has in front of us.   His mercies truly are new every morning. 
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