A World Beyond My Grasp
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Sudden and sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house… All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2:1-2, 4
The day of Pentecost made clear that there is a reality beyond human reality who is personal and is anxious to be in relationship with human beings.
On that day the sound of a mighty rushing wind suddenly descended on those who were gathered together. But that sound was simply a symbol because the greatest thing that happened was neither the sound of a mighty wind nor the shaking of the room in which they met.
The unbelievable event occurred when the Spirit came from beyond time and space and filled their hearts with his empowering presence. They went out of that room transformed and transforming. It was here that the church began.
The church is the body of people who know Someone who exists beyond themselves, who know that Person to be the Holy Spirit. It is a wonderful thing to understand that a world exists beyond my grasp even though cannot see, touch, measure, or control it. In fact, I was made for it to control me.
The marvelous reality is that the Ruler of that other world cares more about you and about me than he does about himself, and if we open Ourselves to his presence, he can transform our routine daily existence so that it becomes a window looking into heaven.
—Dennis Kinlaw,
This Day with the Master
Acts 1:8 begins, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you …” That power, the verse goes on to explain, is given to us for the purpose of living our lives in Christ, before a watching world; that we might be “witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” All too often, as Kinslaw reminds us in today’s devotional thought, The unbelievable event occurred when the Spirit came from beyond time and space and filled their hearts with his empowering presence. And we wonder why it is so hard to be spiritual in our own strength. Look to the Spirit today, right now, before you do anything else. Let Him lead you. Follow His lead. —DH
—David Hoskins, Founder & Care Guide, Sanctuary Clinics