Pentecost is the time we celebrate 50 days from the Exodus and 50 days form the resurrection of Jesus…
Acts 2 tells us the story of the Jews coming to Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Weeks, and when this happens the 12 disciples were showered with the Holy Spirit and the Spirit moves the church and all hell breaks lose! It is something they had never before seen, and they really did not know how to handle this…
And think for a moment, if you heard someone you knew did not speak you language speaking and you understood them perfectly what would you think? How would you react? This was not seen before and still to this day I have not heard of it again! The Spirit moved in and through them to do something new to spread the awesome reality that God has done, is doing and will always be doing a mighty and different thing to help us all know how much we are loved.
And another story for Pentecost is equally scary and dumbfounding…
Ezekiel’s depiction of the dry bones that grow tendons and flesh and come together and have life breathed into them… I do not know about you but if I was Ezekiel, and I saw this I would (to quote Chicken Little’s Father) run away and scream like a little girl. This would have scared me silly! I mean come on I know God is capable of this, but really have you ever seen anything like this? God can do and does whatever he wants, but we don’t expect to see it. We don’t expect to be witnesses of it.
And that my friends is the problem! The Spirit is moving and wanting to do wonderful things, but we are not ready and willing to follow and do. We need to realize that we are almost always the hindrance to God’s mission moving forward, because we want things to be as they always were. We are comfortable in the same old things, and don’t like change, but God is not satisfied with the same old thing we are comfortable with and neither is society. The pews are empty because the niche we have found and follow is not what the community around us is seeking…
SO branch out and step out in faith, and allow the spirit to bring together dry bones and rest on your heads as tongues of fire and to lead you to new and exciting things, because with God all things are possible.
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