day no. 16,410: make your bed, but don't lie in it

Acts 9:34

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.

Before this, the bed made the man. He was defined by his confinement. His life was limited to lying in bed.

But after this incident, the man made his bed in order to walk away from it. He was not required to lie in the bed he had made. He was set free from the bed that had made him.

May God in similar fashion set many free from that which longs to define and confine them so that they might walk freely in obedience to His Word.

Whatever your bed, put it to sleep.

Don’t be mastered by it.

Listen to your Master and make it.