Have you ever experienced something so good you just had to tell somebody else about it?
A place you stumbled upon that felt like a secret worth sharing.
Maybe it was a vacation, a new restaurant, or even a bottle of wine.
I remember the first time I visited Big Sur and found myself in awe. The raw natural beauty felt beyond this world, and I found myself compelled to share that experience with family and friends.
For when something truly awes us, we can not keep it to ourselves.
Peter and John had just this experience with Christ. And their response should be an indicator to us all of just how good he is.
Facing the very group of people who had just imprisoned them and threatened their lives, they could not contain themselves and were compelled to share the goodness of Jesus. It was not qualified or hedged. It was not a matter of reading the room. It was simply the truth.
“As for us, there’s no question-we can’t keep quiet about what we’ve seen and heard.”
Peter and John had encountered Christ firsthand. And whatever they saw, whatever they heard, it reordered them so completely that silence was no longer an option.
The power of their testimony in that moment is convicting.
For I like to think I know the right words and believe the right things. But that kind of irrepressible, can’t-keep-it-in urgency, the kind that overrides social friction, professional risk, or the subtle pressure to keep things politely contained, I struggle there.
And so I’m left with the uncomfrotable reality that I am more comfortable talking about the things that do not cost me anything.
Maybe the question is not whether we should speak. Maybe the question is what have we seen and heard that we have learned to live as if we have not?