Take a moment and find a place that’s almost 11 miles (18km) away from where you are right now. Go ahead I’ll wait. Got it? Now imagine for a moment walking that distance, right now, to tell a friend to come back with you to see a dead person. Once you arrive you don’t just sit down and talk. You turn right around and come back with your friend that same 11 miles to your starting point. That’s what the two men in Acts 9:36-41 did with their friend Peter to see their other, now dead, friend Dorcas. You know how the story ended—Peter raised Dorcas from the dead in the power of the Spirit of God.
Has the Lord sent you on an errand today? Is it a physically tiring one with little natural prospect of success? We can do everything we’re given to do for Him with energy from Him. The end of our journey won’t likely be to see someone raised from the dead. But we might see someone raised from spiritual lethargy, encouraged in the Lord or kept from heading toward eternal spiritual death. Look back at the story in Acts. It says that Lydda, where Peter was staying, was “nigh” to Joppa. Maybe your difficult errand today isn’t such a “big deal” after all.