Acts 20:9-11
A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell to the ground three floors below and was picked up dead. But Paul went down, and bending over him took him in his arms, and said, ‘Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.’ Then Paul went upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he continued to converse with them until dawn; then he left.
Have you ever sat in church on a warm summer Sunday and the sermon just seemed to go on and on and on until you felt like you might fall over dead or at least asleep? I didn’t think so; that has never happened at All Saints that I know of. In this passage, we find Paul continuing to go about his conversation with the group gathered just after he has brought Eutychus back to life. Oh, raising someone from the dead? No big deal. Rather than draw attention to this miracle, he quietly continues where he left off, talking with people – after giving thanks. He let the power and possibilities of God sink in without fanfare.
The one thing I take from these verses besides Paul liking to talk a lot is that all things are possible for God and, if you believe, you need not be alarmed.
Joseph Quinn
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