Whole day of Medicinal Chemistry is just too much for me so I stopped at 4.30pm. I read this module for about 12hrs 30mins today with lunch, Facebook/Twitter and Jon as breaks ;)
Chapter19 was Paul's third missionary journey and narrated about his meeting with Apollos. Paul explained about the baptism of repentance and baptism in Jesus Christ at the beginning. Miracles were performed through Paul in the second part of the chapter and following this was the riot created by Demetrius, a silversmith who made shrines for the goddess Diana. Consequently, the people got very confused with regard to who to worship, the goddess or this man called Jesus? However, the uproar was quited down in the end.
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Acts 19:11-12 says God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
One event came into my mind whilst I was reading through these verses. Remember Matthew 9:21? A woman who was bleeding for12 years saw Jesus performing miracles and said to herself,“If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." ? She did and she was healed (amazing faith by the woman by the way, one of my most favourite miracle stories in the gospel). Well, it just made me think that the same kind of healing power was given to Paul by God to demonstrate His power through the miracles.
Verse 20 was striking too: So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
No matter how bold or faithful or great a speaker Paul was, all the glory had to be given back to God and Paul never complained. In turn, God took care of him, the uproar stopped because Paul knew some influential people (Gaius and Aristarchus v29) and the officials made sure he was safe ;)
If we continue to serve God with boldness, honesty and humility, God will surely keep us safe no matter what happens.
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