Yesterday we looked at God’s promise for a new covenant with His people, today we are going to look a bit at the fulfillment of that promise.
Read Acts 2:17-18 (Joel 2:28) and write down your initial thoughts
In this scene Peter and other believers are in the midst of Pentecost where God put His Holy Spirit in them. How do you even begin to explain that? Peter does it the only way he knows how, by referring back to Joel 2:28. Journal how you would explain Pentecost in your own words.
What we need to understand about this verse is that it applies to us. God promises whether we are young or old, male or female, slave or free, indebt or debt free, that He will give us vision and dreams of what He’s going to do. The question we have to ask ourselves is do you really believe that God does that? Why or why not?
For so many of us, the idea of God giving us visions and working in dreams is a bit of a hard sell. Dreams are nothing but a part of our subconscious coming out, right? And visions, our imagination, we should have out grown that years ago. Welcome to the real world, right? What if we don’t know it all? What if there is something else going on? What if God is using our imagination to show us what could be? Take a moment and journal some of your dreams, some of your visions, some way you imagined the world to be.
What if this is just the tip of the iceberg of living a life in the Spirit? What other ways could God be speaking to you in your life? How else could God’s Law written on our hearts be trying to burst into our lives?
Today pray that God would give us visions, dreams, and inspire our imagination and help us to be aware of the other ways His Law is trying to speak to us in the midst of our busy lives.
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