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 church would be spread worldwide; and people from everywhere would be part of it, and would worship God in their own languages. At Pentecost, the apostles saw this hap-pen, and they heard these words of praise.
What were "the wonderful works of God" that the Jews and Gentiles extolled? The perfect salvation wrought in Jesus' blood atonement; and its application to elect souls who would make up the universal church. This is still what God is doing in the world today—and it ought to elicit our praise and wonder as well.
[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"]
