Acts 3:1-6 (NLT)
1 Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. 2 As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money.
4 Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, “Look at us!”5 The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money. 6 But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!”
“I’ll give you what I have.” - Peter
DO WHAT YOU CAN, NOT WHAT YOU CANNOT
Nothing can pour from you that has not been poured into you.
“It is part of the misguided and whimsical condition of humankind that we so devoutly believe in the power of effort-at-the-moment-of-action alone to accomplish what we want and completely ignore the need for character change in our lives as a whole.”
- Dallas Willard
Too big of goals are often set by those who haven’t learned Jesus’ lesson of the mustard seed: it grows, but growth takes time.
