Hello, everyone! This is the first devotional out of the two for today to make up for not posting on May 20th.
For these first set of verses, we’ll be looking at Acts 2:1-12, and 42-47!
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them.
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.
7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome
11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teachingand to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.
44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.
45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Explanation: Here, God brings people of many nations together; the Arabs, Cretans, etc. And his purpose for this? To bring them together and to show that despite their differences…
They’re all together, and here of one thing; in this case, their connection to the holy spirit.
This not only in the Church, but in any other case, too! That we all are never truly different, and that God helps us to fill in the gaps between where bridges are supposed to go between groups of people.
Will we not always understand or get along? Oh yeah, definetley! But what matters is that we are all in this together.
