Acts 2:1-4
Imagine
being in a room with 119 other people, celebrating Christmas, and all
of a sudden the sound of a gale force wind fills the building. No one
can see where it's coming from or where it's going, and it doesn't
appear that there is any visible wind at all. However, it sounds like
the winds of a hurricane rushing through the room. Suddenly, you feel
this rush of energy inside you and start speaking in Spanish. You've
always known just enough to find a bathroom, but for some reason you're
fluent. You look around, and the people around you are speaking in other
languages as well - German, French, Italian, and the more you listen
the more you realize that every single person is speaking a different
language.
It terrifies you at first, but at the same time there is a calm that settles over you. Something is happening and you can't even begin to describe it, but it's something important. You feel as though some kind of outside force is making a declaration of some kind. Everyone in the room has this same sense of awe and wonder, as this power or energy flows through the room.
The more you pay attention to what's going on, the more you realize that languages you've never heard of are being spoken. As you sit there trying to figure out what's going on, there is this feeling that something is being described here. A statement is being made. Dialects are being spoken by people who'd never heard of them, and it becomes apparent that a power bigger than any human in the room is trying to communicate. It's as if this power is saying, "Hear all of these different dialects? They represent the people of your community that you've never met yet. You've been expecting this whole time that the 120 of you will do something great, but I'm telling you that I'm going to use every ethnicity and every tribe to bring heaven down to earth. It'll be terrifying at first when you see that people you would've never thought would be included are standing by your side, helping you and contributing to the restoration I'm bringing to the world."
As you listen to your gut explain these things, you feel a sense of sudden empowerment and ambition. Something is compelling you to let other people know about what is going on. Something compels you to tell others about what Christmas means, and to go to any length to do it. Not only that, but something compels you in a way you've never known before, to love like you've never loved before. A movement is starting, and it's way bigger than you, way bigger than the group of people you're in the room with, even bigger than the city you're living in. You can feel in your bones that something paramount is about to start, and you get to be along for the ride.
Are you ready to rodeo?
It terrifies you at first, but at the same time there is a calm that settles over you. Something is happening and you can't even begin to describe it, but it's something important. You feel as though some kind of outside force is making a declaration of some kind. Everyone in the room has this same sense of awe and wonder, as this power or energy flows through the room.
The more you pay attention to what's going on, the more you realize that languages you've never heard of are being spoken. As you sit there trying to figure out what's going on, there is this feeling that something is being described here. A statement is being made. Dialects are being spoken by people who'd never heard of them, and it becomes apparent that a power bigger than any human in the room is trying to communicate. It's as if this power is saying, "Hear all of these different dialects? They represent the people of your community that you've never met yet. You've been expecting this whole time that the 120 of you will do something great, but I'm telling you that I'm going to use every ethnicity and every tribe to bring heaven down to earth. It'll be terrifying at first when you see that people you would've never thought would be included are standing by your side, helping you and contributing to the restoration I'm bringing to the world."
As you listen to your gut explain these things, you feel a sense of sudden empowerment and ambition. Something is compelling you to let other people know about what is going on. Something compels you to tell others about what Christmas means, and to go to any length to do it. Not only that, but something compels you in a way you've never known before, to love like you've never loved before. A movement is starting, and it's way bigger than you, way bigger than the group of people you're in the room with, even bigger than the city you're living in. You can feel in your bones that something paramount is about to start, and you get to be along for the ride.
Are you ready to rodeo?
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