Interpreting the Times
Eventually I started tagging my posts about these verses #ScriptureInTheNight.
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Tonight’s passage is particularly exciting to me because it’s from the first passage I’ve ever performed that was interpreted: a scene from my one-man play The Acts. It’s the conclusion of this passage the scene was portraying:
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
The performance was at a coffee house in Jerusalem. I overheard someone asking the guy who set up the performance if he should interpret me, but I didn’t hear the answer. I figured he would have asked me, and since he didn’t I assumed he felt the same way I did: Interpretation would throw off the rhythm of the performance. When my first line came back in Hebrew -- after my initial shock -- I realized it actually set up the natural rhythm of a dialogue!
Some international trips are stirring, so that’s another reason waking to this passage is particularly exciting!!!
I appreciate your prayers as we continue to work on Songs of Revival and planning for these international trips!
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I wish that scene in Jerusalem was recorded, but here's another scene from The Acts: www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/Pentecost.
