You may be hard pressed today to find someone who has forgotten the US invasion on Iraq. In 2003, America displayed to the world our sovereign power by executing Operation “shock & Awe“.
That one decision from the US has had a major global impact. Everything has changed in our world because of it.
But that war was only a taste of what is to come. The Old Testament patriarchs and prophets were but a taste of what was to come. And then came Jesus- the incarnate Christ, the crucified and now risen Savior. Then just as planned, Pentecost arrived in Shock & Awe fashion.
It first came with a mighty sound of a rushing wind, with tongues of fire, then continued with Peter’s prophetic sermon with three thousand being saved because of it. Soon awe came to every soul!
Pentecost came and conquered and most likely will never be repeated again. I am thankful that God never duplicates. I am also thankful that a new form of shock and awe is right around the corner.
In the mean time, while Pentecost, the event is over, the spirit of it lives on today in the lives of the people it has effected.
How are we appropriating the spirit of pentecost which empowered the Apostles and graced the early church?
Perhaps we need a little shock and awe?
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