Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional For Sunday 5th September 2021
n Acts 27-28, Luke reports an inspiring incident
with Paul while on a journey to Rome. The ship
ferrying them and some two hundred and seventy-four
others was caught in a violent storm. Thankfully, all
aboard swam safely to shore on the island of Malta.
The people who lived there showed them great
kindness, and made a fire, and called them all to warm
themselves. As Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and
laid them on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and
fastened itself to his hand.
When the natives saw the creature hanging from
Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this
man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped
the sea, yet justice does not allow to live” (Acts 28:4
NKJV). While the onlookers expected Paul to swell
and suddenly drop dead as a result of the venom, he
simply shook off the creature into the fire and suffered
no harm. They concluded that he was a god.
What made Paul so different? He was eternal life
conscious. He knew that the one who has the Son of
God has eternal life: “…the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23). The
one who has eternal life can’t be poisoned. Jesus said
so in Mark 16:18: “…if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them....”
This is the life that He’s given us, but many don’t
know it. The Bible says through knowledge shall the
just be delivered into their inheritance. So, you see,
it works by knowledge! It’s about your knowledge of
the immortal and incorruptible life of Christ that’s at
work in you. No wonder John said, “These things have
I written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal
life…” (1 John 5:13).
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