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It's a yearly ritual, watching the Oscars and the Emmys and the Tonys and the Grammys. We enjoy seeing the celebrities and finding out if our favorites won. But it begins to get boring when the winners begin to thank a seemingly endless list of people who helped them in some way toward their achievement. Look at it from their point of view, however. It is important for them to publicly acknowledge that they are not where they are strictly on their own. They need to give credit. So it was with Peter. He had to acknowledge that Christ was the source of healing power for this cripple. He certainly couldn't take the credit himself, nor could he risk it being attributed to some other power. And so it is with us. We need constantly to acknowledge the source of our strength, our power, and our love. Our humble confession that God deserves all the credit, unlike those Oscar acceptance speeches, will bore no one: and may lead someone to look beyond us and find Christ.
-- Shearburn
It's a yearly ritual, watching the Oscars and the Emmys and the Tonys and the Grammys. We enjoy seeing the celebrities and finding out if our favorites won. But it begins to get boring when the winners begin to thank a seemingly endless list of people who helped them in some way toward their achievement. Look at it from their point of view, however. It is important for them to publicly acknowledge that they are not where they are strictly on their own. They need to give credit. So it was with Peter. He had to acknowledge that Christ was the source of healing power for this cripple. He certainly couldn't take the credit himself, nor could he risk it being attributed to some other power. And so it is with us. We need constantly to acknowledge the source of our strength, our power, and our love. Our humble confession that God deserves all the credit, unlike those Oscar acceptance speeches, will bore no one: and may lead someone to look beyond us and find Christ.
-- Shearburn
