I was reading Acts 2 in church this past Sunday and my mind started to drift off during the sermon. I do tend to do this, especially when I see a particular passage and take it a different
way that the sermon does. I don't know where this comes from sometimes, but I know its not from me. It is moments like these that affirm what I am called to in ministry. Weird.
Anyway, I was reading the story about Pentecost and I started to see it in a different angle than before. Maybe what I write down here is something that has been said before, and I just saw it for myself. Who knows? I just thought it was interesting that God chose to use the miracle of allowing the believers to speak other languages. Maybe its because I'm a Spanish major and I just find this story fascinating.
I just pondered this idea for a while, because this particular miracle seemed out of the ordinary.
I think that we may put more emphasis on the flaming tongues part of the passage, but maybe that's because it seems more dramatic and interesting. But the conclusion I came to was this: that God allowed the believers to communicate with people that they couldn't have communicated before. The believers were able to finally connect with people that they otherwise would not have connected with. The cool thing about this is that they could only really reach people with the Holy Spirit.
These believers didn't need a big ministry gimic, or a nice building or good music to connect with people. These believers just needed God and God alone. He bridged the gap between believers and unbelievers, and no one else could take credit for it.
I just thought that this was a neat way to look at this passage and it struck me this past Sunday.
And I don't actually feel that guilty for letting my mind drift off during the sermon. Because God used it.
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I never thought of it that way... wow. I don't think I got that much out of Paige's sermon ;)
Today I was reading a bit of Mark, and what you wrote on here made me stop and think during the study. Jesus uses foreign words to heal all throughout the book. He doesn't just say "Arise" or "You are healed" in Greek as the other Gospel writers mark, but also "Tal'itha cum" and "Eph'phatha." The NI said foreign words of healing were common in Greco-Roman works too.
It just made me think of what you said on here :) God's power to use the foreign to reach the world. Cause none of it is foreign to Him.
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