Our homes are a buffer zone.
We can close our windows in the stormiest of weather, and as long as the power company keeps the lines up and functioning, we’re warm as toast, and snugger than a bug under a rug.
Yet there are sportsmen who’ll sit in a deer stand through the worst of weather, sailors who brave the roughest seas, and parents who endure soccer game after soccer game, all for the sake of enjoyment, whether in what they’re doing, or who they’re doing it for. It’s that freezer full of meat, or the sunrise after the storm, or the excitement on our daughter’s face that drives us on.
If we stay in our place of safety, we sometimes miss out on what might come our way out in the world.
Acts 2:1-47 tells the story of a defeated people. Jesus was gone. Those who had followed him struggled with their new purpose in life. Their hearts were in despair, for who could follow after the way of Jesus without the Messiah at their side to lead them on?
They could have stayed at home, barred the windows, and hunkered down. Then the storms would have passed them by. Yet they were drawn together, as we see in Acts 2:1:
“When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.”
They knew where their strength was. Jesus might no longer be with them in person, but they were stronger together than they were apart. They found their strength in one another.
The result? We read of it in Acts 2:2:
“And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.”
The winds of change had come upon the disciples. Because they stepped out of the warmth of their safety zone, God blew across them, and nothing has been the same since. That day? Peter was emboldened to stand and tell the mocking crowds of the power of Jesus of Nazareth who died upon the cross and was raised from the dead. Read of the results in Acts 2:41:
“So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.”
When we step out of the safety of whatever we hunker behind, God will begin to use us. Let’s get out there. Let’s get caught up in the Winds of Change.
When we give Jesus total access to us, we give him equal access to everyone around us.
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