Let me describe what Pentecost wasn’t like, all right?

Picture all those believers meeting together. Suddenly there’s the sound of a mighty rushing wind, and it fills all the house where they were sitting.

“Great! This is wonderful!” they cry. “Quick! Shut the windows! Let’s capture this glorious wind forever!”

So twenty, thirty years later there they sit–faces flushed, eyes glazed, remembering the day God came–and determined to keep everything exactly as it was then.

…The wind is a wind. You can’t trap it; you just have to go with it. Thus it is with the Holy Spirit!

Past successes can completely undo you,…and undo your church, too. God blessed something so wonderfully a while back; it was so beautiful; so you work at it, you fan it, you wear out the saints trying to revive it.

But…God has gone on to something else, and you don’t even know it!

Forget yesterday; today is God’s precious gift… “The old has gone, the new has come!” (2Cor. 5:17). “Forgetting the past, press on to what lies ahead” (Phil. 3:13)

from Up with Worship