appropriate response

We’re currently going through the book of Acts and this week was about the cripple at the gate called beautiful (Acts 3:1-10). I’m sure you know the story. Peter says “silver and gold have I none” and then the guy is miraculously healed. The newly healed cripple starts (as a song I learned in Sunday school said) ‘walking and leaping and praising God’.

Almost every time I hear that story told people rationalize his response. They say things like “of course he leapt and shouted like crazy. He was a crippled his whole life and now he’s healed!’. Here’s my only issue with that rationale. Aren’t we all like that cripple? Broken people who have had an encounter with Jesus and had, and are having, our broken places healed. So what’s our appropriate response?

One day God found my glaring weaknesses and gave me strength I never had before. I see myself when I see that cripple. Someone who was once broken and not of much use. So excuse me if you see me ‘walking and leaping and praising God’. I’m just testing out my new “legs”.