THE PROMISE FULFILLED

Lectionary Text: Acts 2:3-4 - Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

One can’t explain what happened on that Pentecostal morn.
What matters is that on this day the Christian Church was born,
the gift (as promised) of the Holy Spirit was received,
and after hearing Peter preach, three thousand more believed.
The highest promise ever made to mortals was fulfilled.
The Holy Spirit now had come, as God the Father willed.
“I’ll pray the Father,” Jesus said before his death, “and he
will send another Advocate, who will forever be
with you. This is the Spirit, whom the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees nor knows him.”  But we can believe,
because he does abide with us, as Jesus said he would.
If Pentecost had not occurred, I wonder if we could.