SCRIPTURE: Acts (NIV) 12:6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
OBSERVATION: Just a short time before, James, the brother of John, had been in jail and killed. Now King Herod had taken Peter into custody. Perhaps he remembered that Peter had been in jail before. Perhaps he recalled the time the apostles had just disappeared from the locked and guarded cell only to return to the temple courts preaching. That would not happen this time. This time there would be guards at the entrance. Peter would be chained between two soldiers in the cell with him! There was nothing that Peter could do—but sleep.
APPLICATION: The cell-floor bed was not comfortable, the chains probably hindered his movement, the guards may have been snoring, and the morning did not look too promising, but Peter was sleeping. He was sleeping so soundly that the angel struck Peter on the side to wake him! Peter had been walking in the will of God; now he could do nothing but trust God with his future. We can too!
PRAYER: Lord, when circumstances do not look good and I see no way out, there is only one thing I can do—trust you. Amen.
Pastor Leon
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