Acts 2:11b  we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

Pentecost Sunday is such an important day in church history.  It is the day we commemorate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the believers in Jerusalem.  Jesus instructed His followers to wait in Jerusalem for the gift the Father promised.  Within a few days they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came upon them.  This was needed in order for them to be His witnesses.

There were God-fearing Jews from every nation staying in Jerusalem at that time. Then on Pentecost Sunday, the Jews were bewildered as they came together to behold what was happening because each one heard his own native language being spoken by the followers of Jesus.  They were utterly amazed and didn’t understand how this could be because they recognized the speakers as all being Galileans.  Peter then spoke to the crowd about Jesus and what was happening.  About 3,000 were added to their number that day!

There are so many wonderful things that we could focus on when we consider this marvelous event.  What particularly strikes me is the fact of what was ‘what was being said’ by the followers of Jesus, in all of the languages of the believing Jews.  Each Jew heard them declaring in his own tongue, the wonders of God!  Some other translations describe what the believing Jews heard as: the magnificent acts of God; the wonderful works of God; or the mighty works of God.

Yes, the day was filled with the supernatural power of God.  The church received the outpouring of the Spirit spoken of by the prophet Joel.  Jesus was preached with thousands coming to believe in Him.  But remember, it was all about God!  The believing Jews heard these ‘witnesses’ declaring the wonders – the magnificent acts of their God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Two thousand years later, we rejoice because we serve the same all-powerful God – the Holy One of Israel; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!  There is none like Him.  We too share in the incredible privilege of being His witnesses.  When we truly walk in His ways, we get to experience the thrill of our very lives declaring the wonder of our God.  That thought is worth giving serious consideration:  How do our lives declare the wonder of our God?