A Welcomed Sound

He’d been with them a while

But said he must go away,

They became apprehensive

And had had much to say.

He had promised much

And had only partly delivered,

That’s why at his crucifixion

They not only coward but shivered.

Their hopes were raised again

When he came back from the dead,

They had hoped he would remain

But he left again instead.

But this time he left a promise

To send the Comforter soon

And instructed them to tarry

In the upper room.

In the upper room they waited

For the fulfilment of that promise

Certain in their obedience

Nothing they would miss.

Unlike the Jews of old

They believed the word they heard,

Unlike the Jews of old

They knew Jesus kept his word.

He had risen from the dead

Before then they did not believe

But since then they were sure

The Spirit they would receive.

They waited as instructed

For the Holy Spirit’s coming,

Together in one accord

Together in faith believing.

Seven days after Jesus ascended

There was a peculiar sound,

It filled the room where they were

In that room it was all around.

  

It was not a sound of victory

Or the cry of the vanquished,

Rather it was like a rushing wind

Bearing the news they all wished.

O this was the sound of Pentecost

The coming of the Holy Ghost

And soon the sound would spread

Beyond Judea’s coasts.

The Holy Spirit had come

And He filled the room therein,

And later in Jerusalem

There would be a tremendous din.

This was not the golden calf

That the Jews before had worshipped,

This was the return of Jesus Christ

In the person of the Holy Spirit.

This was the sound of promise

The sound of the Comforter,

The sound that one like Jesus

Had come as our Deliverer.

What a sound of distinction!

The sound of a soul set free,

The sound that speaks to the victory

Over our archenemy.

Not a sound of rebellion

Where thousands upon thousands died

But a sound of glorious triumph

For all who in Jesus abide.

This sound can fill our hearts

Just like it filled the room back then

When God on that Pentecost

The Holy Spirit did send.

Promised in the Old Testament

It was delivered in the New

The glorious sound of the redeemed

Not only for me but also you.

Stewart Russell © May 2018