Topic: Shake It Off! [Joyce Meyer Devotional 9 August 2019]
Then Paul [simply] shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. — Acts 28:5 (AMP)
Acts 28:3-5 (AMP) contains a powerful lesson.
It says: But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper crawled out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, Justice [the avenging goddess] has not permitted him to live.” Then Paul [simply] shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
Then Paul [simply] shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. — Acts 28:5 (AMP)
Acts 28:3-5 (AMP) contains a powerful lesson.
It says: But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper crawled out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, Justice [the avenging goddess] has not permitted him to live.” Then Paul [simply] shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.