SCRIPTURE: Acts 2:24 (TM) - larger
reading Acts 2:22-36
But God untied the death
ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him.
STORY:
J. Allan Peterson tells this story: I read about a small boy
who was consistently late coming home from school. His parents warned him one
day that he must be home on time that afternoon, but nevertheless he arrived
later than ever. His mother met him at the door and said nothing. At dinner
that night, the boy looked at his plate. There was a slice of bread and a glass
of water. He looked at his father's full plate and then at his father, but his
father remained silent. The boy was crushed.
The father waited for the full impact to sink in, then
quietly took the boy's plate and placed it in front of himself. He took his own
plate of meat and potatoes, put it in front of the boy, and smiled at his son.
When that boy grew to be a man, he said, "All my life I've known what God
is like by what my father did that night."
OBSERVATION:
The flame of the Holy Spirit
danced across their heads. They began to speak in every known language
represented by the people gathered in the town. A crowd gathered. Peter
preached … wow, what a sermon … 3,000 were added to the ranks of believers.
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim,
Till all the world adore His sacred Name.
Oh, to have the sense of
the living presence of the risen Christ. Oh, to have the power of the Holy
Spirit to speak so clearly and profoundly as Peter. Oh, to be the instrument of
God to move people so that they desire a relationship with God. Oh, to be an
influence that others may see in us the likeness of God because of deeds we
have done.
May the cross be lifted
high regardless of the cost so that the entire world will proclaim His sacred
name!
May the transformational
power of God be realized in us today!
PRAYER:
Make it so! Make it so! Make
it so! Gracious God, make it so!
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