Acts 3:11 “While the beggar held on to

Acts 3:11

“While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.”

Solomon’s Colonnade, a grandiose place with high pillars making an inner walkway within the temple courts. Beautiful in architecture, many historians would speak of its majesty in their writings.

On this day a crowd ran to see the miracle for themselves. The atmosphere was electric. They had seen nothing like this before in their lifetime nor in this place.

But this is not the first time we have seen activity reported in the Colonnade.
In John 10 Jesus is walking in this same place and is being hounded about his identity. In fact we see a scene which can only be described as warfare. Demands that he reveal who he was led the Jews to pick up stones twice within the same occasion, but using Scripture he embarrassed the stone-throwers into foregoing their judgment. But they were undeterred and again tried to seize him but he somehow escaped their grasp.

The point I want to make is this: today’s attacks can herald tomorrows miracles!
Separated by several years, the Colonnade has a story to tell. It is the battle for your identity. The war against all that you are and have and done may be severe. You may not even know if you will survive. This may be the dark night of your soul. However, fight with all your might. Hold on. Don’t give up in anyway. You may only get through this like an escape. There may be no victory in the today. But your tomorrow will come. The story is not over. The miracles are ahead of you if you can resist the attacks today!