Man, what a devotional to start off the newly-upped high-stakes accountability game.
I say this a lot, but I truly don't get today's passage. Rather, I don't get what I'm supposed to be learning/understanding.
To recap:
Paul talks to people.
Boy falls out of window and dies.
Nevermind, he's not dead.
Paul keeps talking.
Paul goes to some other places, but not Ephesus.
Re. the boy, truthfully, part of me feels like, "What did you expect, sitting in a window 3 stories off the ground? And where were your parents?"
The commentaries on BibleGateway say that the boy straight-up died and Paul resurrected him. Maybe it reads differently in Greek, but I didn't really get that. It's not always easy to tell if someone who might be dead, is dead.
Isn't Luke a doctor though? Yeah, but from what I gather, he's recording these events based off of oral traditions; he wasn't necessarily there himself. If he was there, it'd be weird b/c everyone would've probably had a, "We need a doctor!"-moment and looked at Luke and Luke would've been like, "I can't right now, I gotta make sure I write down what happens here..."
Paul definitely seemed like a busy guy, going from city to city on what sounds like a pretty tight schedule. I think I should probably read the entire chapter, just to get a sense of the events that lead up to this and generally what is going on.
I'll be very interested to see today's devotional e-mail. I have no insights at all into this passage...
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