“And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.”
The world might view this picture with a pity for Apostle Peter, for there’s no way in human strength or wit that he could deliver himself from those chains. The guards around him had steel weapons, prison bars, they had chains and whips, money, the law, a possible reward from King Herod, they had food, and drink, they had stone walls, they had the government on their side, they had their homes and families; but Peter had the LORD God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
Despite how I was trapped between the two chains of my sin and flesh, guarded between the world and Satan; I had the prayers of the saints and the saving power of Jesus Christ to set me free.
Oh how I don’t have to stand by helpless and weeping at the bondage set by the Enemy around my brothers and sisters in Christ. When I see the army of Satan advancing again on Christ’s church, I can blow the horn of prayer to call the Lord of Calvary to defeat the forces of the Enemy who has been ultimately defeated at the cross and made a public spectacle of them by the resurrection.
Application: Whether I myself am in chains, or I witness my brother in such imprisonment, there’s no need to fear or dwell, but to fight on my knees in prayer and see my God triumph once again over the principalities of the world and the ruler of the air and finally see the chains falling from His church’s hands.
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