I know what I’m about to write about is not the “main point” of our text for Sunday.  I’m not sure I’ll do a great job with the main point even when we get to Sunday!  There is something rather subtle in Acts 3 that reveals a less than spectacular lesson that is merely in the shadow of the gospel.  Okay.  Disclaimer out of the way.  I think we miss the number of times that Bible characters did the best they could with what they had.   In the narrative for Sunday we learn that Peter and John had no money to give to the poor.  What did that make them?  They could have moped about contemplating how unfair it was to be serving the King in poverty but instead they went to the Temple to pray.  They were interrupted on their way by a guy who had been dropped off to ask for alms.  BAM!  In their face, another reminder that they had “no money for ministry.”  Yet, they offered the man what they did have—Jesus!  Of course the main point of this narrative (as we see in the rest of the chapter) is the Person and Power of the Redeemer and Restorer, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  But, there is a lesson for those of us who think we need more before we can do anything at all.  I learned a lesson from my Greek Professor many years ago and it applies in various areas of life.  He reminded us that so often people do nothing when they could have done something even though it wasn’t everything.  We live in a less than ideal world and yet we crave the ideal before we live in the real.  For example, some people get no exercise because they can’t run—even though they could walk.  Some people never clean their house because they can’t clean it all—even though they could clean a room.  Some people never read their Bible because they don’t have 30 minutes—even though they do have 10.  You get the point.  If Peter and John had waited for the circumstances to be ideal, they would have never gone to the Temple to pray and they would have missed out on a glorious gospel opportunity.  Friends, let us do what we can, while we can, trusting the Risen, Present and Active Jesus to join us in our endeavors.