Acts 2:17-21

Acts 2:17-21 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  Do you ever think ahead? 
  As a society, we're a people focused on the here and now.  You can see this in any city -- everyone's head is down in their own device, focused on their world, on pressing notifications.  We're dealing with the urgent, often just trying to juggle things and make it through the day, somehow hoping that tomorrow will be different.  But we often don't think ahead -- we don't think about how our actions are shaping us into a certain kind of people 10 and 20 years from now.  We often don't save for retirement, because it seems like it's so far away... until suddenly it isn't.  As a culture, we've done a great job of isolating death to a very separate place -- we don't think about, don't look that far ahead.
  But what do you really believe is going to happen?  Do you believe that, one day, God will pour out the Spirit on all flesh, animating us in a sense of spiritual activity?  Do you look for wonders in the heavens above?  Are you ready for what God might do?
  I don't know when and how God will do this, but we can all pray for hearts anticipating the things God might do, both the grand actions and the tiny ways God calls us closer.