Stoned!

I thought you might like the title of this blog, or not!! But I have a question for you, who in the Bible was stoned? Paul was stoned, now I don't mean as a result of doing drugs, but with ROCKS!!

As the story goes Paul healed a man, then those who saw wanted to worship him as a god, so as Paul explained to the crowd it was Jesus not him who healed the man and it is Jesus who you should worship, not him. The crowds started to go crazy, a riot broke out and as a result, PAUL was STONED.

Then the Bible says, "But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up."

Did you catch that? Paul almost died, and his friends gathered around him and he got up. I am convinced that if his friends did not surround him, the story would have turned out differently.

If Paul didn't have friends, the stones that were thrown would have kept him down. That is true life when people throw stones at us, I find that having friends around help repel those stones and when a stone gets through, they are there to pick us up so that we can move on.

Did you know that PAUL immediately got up and went right back doing what he was doing?

We must always keep close friends around, so that when stones are thrown and we are down, we have people right their to pick us up!