“Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of all; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
If you have ever brought a vehicle to the mechanic you have to tell them the problem. If you don’t know the technical terms, you do your best to describe the issue using sounds and hand gestures. It can be very funny stuff to watch. The mechanic, well, he is looking for evidence of what is wrong while listening to you describe the problem. Detectives use evidence to piece together the crime. So evidence is the part of the puzzle left for us to find so we can find out what really happened.
Our verse comes into play as evidence of the move of God. Many were confessing and disclosing their practices and getting rid of sorcery books as a result of Christ moving into their lives. The evidence of God moving is that many people were coming to Christ. Not only that, but they begin to confess their sins and straightening up their lives in miraculous ways. The revival at Asbury started with a person confessing sin and the God’s spirit spread over the crowd making Asbury a historical event and a mighty move of God that has spread to many places.
A piece of evidence for the move of God is the stripping away of stuff that is against God. The cost of such things can be pretty high. For example, it cost the people all the sorcery books and idols adding up to a whopping fifty thousand pieces of silver. Your commitment to Christ could make you get rid of some stuff that could cost you some serious dollars. In the end, following Christ is worth so much more and could never be compared to the cost of your sinful ways.
Just like the mechanic and the detective who are trained to look for evidence we need to be trained to see the evidence of the move of God. It could be the smallest thing like timing or a word from a friend in a time of need. It also could be someone letting you in on their sin that has gripped them. Evidence of God working is around us. Can you see it?
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