Acts 3:11 While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. 12 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? 13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Having been used by God to heal a lame man in the temple, Peter stood up to explain what had happened. He wanted people to realize first and foremost that it was not by His power, but by that of God's Servant. That name: His Servant, the Servant of the Lord, would hit home with these people as the One who came from their line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but also was the One prophesied by Isaiah - the Messiah. Peter says point-blank: "Jesus is that Servant." Diann Cotton, in her book 100 Days with Jesus, points out that a servant is simply "one that serves others; one that is in the service of another." In other words, as His Servant, Jesus was not only God's Servant; He served us as well. He did what God wanted Him to do, which was to do what we needed done for us. Even now, as Peter points out, Jesus is serving the Father, by doing for us what we need, like healing that man in the temple. How much does He do for us that we either are ignorant of or refuse to recognize? Thank God for His Servant.
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