Acts 4:13-21 / Mark 16:9-15
God often reveals Himself in the most unexpected situations and in the most unexpected persons.
We would usually think that the intelligent and the religious would know more about the ways of God and how He reveals Himself.
Yes, we need to know about how God has revealed Himself in the past.
But God’s ways and His thoughts are often not the ways of man or how man thinks.
In the 1st reading, the rulers, elders and scribes were astonished at the assurance shown by Peter and John, considering they were uneducated and lowly laymen.
But when these rulers, elders and scribes saw the man who had been cured standing by their side, they could find no answer.
But the answer is right before their eyes, just that they cannot accept the mysterious ways of God.
God often chooses the lowly and humble to reveal His ways and His plans.
But to be obedient to God, then we have to change our ways and our thinking.
Only when we are humble, then we will be able to understand the ways and the plans of God.