Pleasant Stone Devotional Meditation: December 7

“Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And He took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately is feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.” ~ Acts 6-8

This “many-colored pleasant stone” passage is a crystal-clear, step-by-step procedure for becoming whole again. It may be followed by anyone who has been touched by the power of Jesus Christ. A power which can heal a spirit or a body. A power which can heal mind or emotions. It is the same power which brought the dead body of Jesus of Nazareth up out of the tomb that first Easter morning.

It is the same power that “saves” a man and keeps him day by day. And if any man is disposed to take all Jesus Christ has for him in the way of emotional healing, he will unconsciously follow the same procedure this beggar followed.

Peter “took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.” But, the man could have sunk back down again, just as Peter dropped his hand! Many do. Instead, “leaping up [he] stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.”

THIS man WANTED to be healed. He wanted to “join the human race” again! He was tired to the very death of his ego, of being “a certain man lame from his mother’s womb [who] was carried, whom they daily laid at the gate of the temple.”

He wanted to be rid of his “beloved symptom” and so he stood up and began to walk and to leap, and doing this, he “entered with them into the temple.” He was willing just to be another member of the human race again, doing what everyone else did and requiring no more special attention.

“I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live.”