You Just Can’t Explain God Sometimes...

I am intrigued with the following statement in Scripture from Acts 2:13 (NLT) “But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying, ‘They’re just drunk, that’s all!’”  Isn’t that just like us most of the time?  When we can’t explain something we come up with some way to make ourselves feel better about it.  Especially if it makes us feel uncomfortable or out of control.

                                                                                                                         

In case you are not familiar with the passages preceding Acts 2:13, I encourage you to read Acts 2:1-12. In summary, it tells of the day of Pentecost when all the believers were meeting together in one place. Then the Holy Spirit settled on each of them and everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. There were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem.  They heard these disciples from Galilee speaking in their own native languages! They heard them speaking about the wonderful things God had done! God’s word tells us they were amazed and perplexed at this! What can this mean, they asked each other?

I love that God does amazing and perplexing things to make Himself known to us and cause us to ask “what does this mean?” Asking what does this mean usually leads us on a journey to experience His grace whether unto salvation or unto spiritual growth.

I encourage you, if God is up to something in your life, your marriage, your family, your church, your ministry, that you can’t really explain but you know it is the hand of God, don’t let “others in the crowd” (which by the way several commentaries suggest “the crowd” represents the scribes and Pharisees and the chief priests (the religious) that have already resisted the Holy Spirit) discourage you. Stay the course and be amazed!!

Amazed!

His,

Vickie