Acts 12:12-15
12 So, when he had considered this, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying. 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, because of her gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. 15 But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, “It is his angel.”
Rhoda could not believe that the doomed Peter could be knocking at the door; everyone knew that he was in prison and would not be released alive. But she heard his voice and knew it was him. When she told the others, they would not believe until they heard or saw for themselves. So she kept insisting it was him until they said it was Peter's angel - choosing to believe something even more unbelievable. So do we miss the obvious truths and accept more unlikely ones at times when we should be taking God at His word for what it says. Too often we manipulate it subtly to fit our understanding instead. His testimony is true.
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