Reading: Acts 2:7
“Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are
speaking Galileans?’”
How many times do we tend to put up boundaries against God’s spoken
word whether knowingly or not?
Can only hear it spoken here.
Only by this or that person with these credentials.
Cannot at this time—maybe later.
How often do we lock others out, or keep ourselves from giving the
unexpected words of hope, because of busyness, or hardness of heart, or fear of
ridicule?
Yet God speaks anytime and anywhere through any persons. Through joy
and sadness, birth and death, riches and poverty, ready hearts and stone
hearts, through creation, and at least once through a donkey. No limits on His
words going out or coming in, except from our very ordinary selves.
“For the
word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and
piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow,
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:
12
Lord, please give us hearts and souls ready and willing to listen—to
notice—to receive—to obey—to share as You direct. And when we are astonished,
may we remember to give thanks to You alone.
Psalm of Worship: Genesis 1:7
“So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the
dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.”
