Poor Eutychus
Awe! I feel bad for my brother, Eutychus. He will, for eternity be known as the kid who slept through one of the Apostle Paul's sermons. Hahaha. How amazing is God's sense of humor that a story like this would be recorded in his Holy Word! This just shows me how real the Bible is... I mean, real in the sense of "authentic". It really isn't this "polished" religious text that was altered by scribes to fit theology, as Atheists would like to argue. It's a real book that God uses to change lives, problems and all... Amen to that!
It’s a Miracle!
Interesting that I would be reading David Hume around the same time I'm reading Acts 9, because amazingly enough Hume, an atheist, makes a great argument that goes well win Paul's conversion. Talking about miracles, he says (probably sarcastically): "Whoever is moved by faith to assent to it (miracles), is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding". It indeed is a miracle that any of us believe at all, and here in Acts 9, we see one of the greatest examples of this. Saul, a Pharisee, an enemy of the church, is called by Jesus in a powerful way and is saved. Amazing!