Send the Word!

        After take a course in typing in high school, my parents purchased a Royal portable typewriter.  i would use that typewriter the rest of my days at high school and then in college.  Upon entering the U. S. Navy, I was at boot camp and during service week, the question was asked, "Can anyone here type?"  I raised my hand and then spent the next week supposedly typing for some officers in the next camp instead of peeling potatoes  I actually never typed a letter during my time there, but made coffee the whole day.  My typing was not the most accurate as you probably can see by the devotions that come out.  In those days, we used a lot of white out in order to correct mistakes or we simply had to do it again from the beginning.  Then, along comes the word processor where the white out is not necessary, but you just have to move the cursor back to the mistake and type over it and it makes a perfect document.  Once finished, all you have to do is hit the send button and away it goes, which by the way, I failed to do on Tuesday making my devotion almost late.  Once the document, or in this case, the devotion is finished, it can be sent to many people at the same time.  We are indeed fortunate to have this aspect of technology.  God always has His ways of getting the message out to those who need to hear it.  Acts 4:4 says, "But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand."   
       When Peter preached, people responded to the message.  This passage speaks of about 5,000 men.  Add the number of women involved and the total probably doubles.  At his first preaching, 3,000 souls were added to the church.  How would you have liked to have been at that meeting?  In Peter's day, there was no word processor, no Royal typewriter, nor was there a fancy public address system.  Pentecost was even greater as they had the word translated by the Holy Spirit so that everyone there heard it in their own language.  The United Nations needs to have a person translate each individual language but God did it all at once.  Many of the meetings in the days of Paul were done in the open air and yet people heard, were convicted by the Holy Spirit and then converted when they heard the message.  We have padded pews, heated or air conditioned churches, pleasant music and communion in small individual cups all sanitized and ready to go.  Our bread is cut into small pieces and will keep for months without spoiling.  Our conversions of lost souls, however, is far less than the Apostle Peter who was preaching with the power of the Holy Spirit.  Praise God that He gets His message out to those who need to hear it without the word processor, the typewriter, the PA system or the padded pew.  Yes, God works miracles even today.