Mon., 7/15/19 Devotion (Acts 2:11b)

Today's encouragement comes from Acts 2:11b, where we read these words:

" . . . We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God."

One of the great miracles of the New Covenant is that the gospel and the church would be spread worldwide; and people from everywhere would be part of it, and would worship God through Jesus Christ in their own languag-es. At Pentecost, the apostles saw this happen, and they heard these words of praise (above).

What were "the wonderful works of God" that the Gentiles extolled? The per-fect redemption wrought in Jesus' blood atonement; and the application of the same, by the Holy Spirit, to elect souls who would make up the one great church. This is still what God is doing in the world today—and it elicits un-speakable joy in all the true saints.

[Puritan quote of the day: "[Divine] hope cuts a way through rock; it wrestles with difficulties; it despises dangers; it marches in the face of death.” —Thom-as Watson, in his sermon, "The Sacred Anchor"]