![]() That’s the way it works - mind or no mind - when God means to get something done. I wonder if that figure of speech was used to remind us that even if the gate had a mind (like the soldiers had minds) those minds would swing on the hinges of God’s will. So, the gate opened of its own impulse.Īnd, of course, we know it’s a figure of speech. Is it an odd translation? Actually it’s a pretty good translation of the Greek automatē. You can even read that. ![]() Of its own accord? Gates don’t have any accord. “The iron gate leading into the city opened of its own accord” (Acts 12:10). īut here’s the part that slowed my devotions way down. The night before his execution, an angel from God woke him, and “the chains fell off his hands” (Acts 12:7). Peter was put in prison with four squads of soldiers keeping watch (12:4-5) - two chains on his hands and a soldier on either side - and more at the door. So Herod decided to do the same thing to Peter. Killing James pleased the people - at least some of them (Acts 12:3). I suppose he beheaded him like another Herod did John the Baptist. Herod had just killed one of the Sons of Thunder, James, with the sword (Acts 12:2). So one morning in the book of Acts, I was reading chapter 12 where Peter is about to be killed. Roll it around in the mouth of your mind before you swallow it down into your soul. That’s the way I really like to read the Bible. If it takes 20 minutes to read four chapters, I can take two hours. If the Bible plan says four chapters (which it does), I can read eight. One of the great benefits of vacation is that there are no deadlines for being done with devotions.
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