Day 5, On The Road To Pentecost: GOD'S GRACE AT WORK

Acts 5:12-16

In this brief paragraph we get a glimpse of the spirit of life in the early days of the Church.  Mystery abounded.  People witnessed the activities through eyes of wonder and amazement.  They really didn’t even know what to do with it all.  They just knew that something was happening they had never experienced before.  The wind of the Holy Spirit was blowing and all they could do was observe it (see John 3:8).  There was unity among the believers and fear among others.  The church grew and the news spread.  Broken people in need of healing were brought before the church, and “signs and wonders were taking place among the people” (see Acts 5:12).

These things cause me to wonder what life might be like should believers unite their hearts to the DNA of God, and then live in the light of God’s DNA flowing through them.  I wonder how Acts 5:12-16 might find expression in our day if we could remove ego and pride from the story and just let God be God in our midst.  

I’ve often wondered what it would take for God to burst into the storyline of the 21^st century so as to really influence people for the grace and mercy He has revealed in Jesus.  I’m not sure it would look exactly like it looked in the opening days of the church but I am convinced it would be beyond our imagination.  I don’t think we could think it up or orchestrate it. I’m pretty sure that we believers would all stand amazed as we experienced the new outpouring, and sought to be a part of it all.

I’m wondering what God might do in my life should I could really step aside and let Him be God in me.  Have you ever wondered that about your life?  How does God want to be present today?  What does God want to do?  How does God seek to make Himself known today? Is our faith child-like enough to believe that God “is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works with us” (Ephesians 3:20)?

A Prayer for today:

“Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and everything in them, it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:  ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers have gathered together against the Lord and against his Messiah.For in this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness. (Acts 4:24-30)