Jan | 18 | Swimming in the Swamping!

Key Word:- PROMISE

Title:- Swimming in the Swamping!

Acts 2: 1
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come……

Luke 8:23
 “But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped”…(NASUB). ’

Here in our text for today, the same Greek verb for ‘swamped’ is used and translated here as ‘fully come’. The idea is that both the will and the good desire of God, so long promised, was now fiercely flooding into the space-time continuum and even breaking over the glorious gunnels of the purposes of God! Pentecost, blown by this good gale of God, was overflowing into the world. Imagine that!

Pentecost was a festival of harvest, a festival of first fruits. It was a social gathering, a festival of good cheer, a day of joy, a day of abounding liberality and now, right here at this feast of abundance, God’s harvest would now fully begin. God’s mercy would now be lavished upon needy people. God the Father, because of the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, would now swamp undeserving sinners with astoundingly abundant grace and proudly proclaim in many mother tongues, the unwavering wonders of His love!

Traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers, in 406 A.D, Jerome completed the Vulgate, his translation of the Bible into Latin, which included his own translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew. This same Jerome compares Pentecost with the beginning of the Jewish national life on Mt. Sinai (Ad Tabiol, section 7). He says: - “There is Sinai, here Sion; there the trembling mountain, here the trembling house; there the flaming mountain, here the flaming tongues; there the noisy thundering, here the sounds of many tongues; there the clangor of the rams horn, here the notes of the gospel-trumpet.” They are old-fashioned comparisons maybe but never the less, so very true! FRIENDS, PENTECOST, FULLY COME, NOW SWAMPED THE WORLD!

It seems with such a swamping that there can be no excuse for frugality in our desires and dreams, or in our love and liberality! So go and get to your lavish God today and ask for a full portion, no the fullest portion, that is pressed down and overflowing! Today, we shall either drown in our blind dismay of what we believe to be our providential lack, or smiling with glee, we shall leap out of our boat and swim in the swamping goodness and promises of God the good!

Listen: -Do you despise the riches of His goodness? Rom 2:4…

Pray: - Lord, let Your waters quench this thirsty soul. Amen!