Peter stood with the other eleven apostles. He raised his voice and declared, “Judeans and everyone living in Jerusalem! Know this! Listen carefully to my words! These people aren’t drunk, as you suspect; after all, it’s only nine o’clock in the morning! Rather, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
Your young will see visions.
Your elders will dream dreams.
Even upon my servants, men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
I will cause wonders to occur in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.
The sun will be changed into darkness,
and the moon will be changed into blood,
before the great and spectacular day of the Lord comes.
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene was a man whose credentials God proved to you through miracles, wonders, and signs, which God performed through him among you. You yourselves know this. In accordance with God’s established plan and foreknowledge, he was betrayed. You, with the help of wicked men, had Jesus killed by nailing him to a cross. God raised him up! God freed him from death’s dreadful grip, since it was impossible for death to hang on to him. (Acts 2:14-24, CEB)
Peter stood and told the crowd, did you not understand the words of scripture? Things are going to happen through the people who follow God that we do not understand. Dreamers will dream and their dreams will come true. People will speak in ways they have never spoken. God will do things we do not understand. That doesn’t mean you’re drunk or we’re drunk. It means God works the way God wants to work and we won’t get it.
We will put people to death because it seems like they have gone astray from what God wants when they are actually doing the will of God. We won’t get it because it doesn’t fit in our box and it isn’t the way we think God should work.
Know God works in mysterious ways.
Love like Jesus. Knowing you won’t always understand.
Loving People. Loving God.
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