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And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” (Acts 2:12 NASB)

With my pastor having preached out of  1 Peter 3 on Sunday, the charge to "always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you" (from verse in NASB). Peter knows what he is talking about, since the remainder of Acts 2 records his answer to this question and the response of the crowd.

While it may not be as dramatic as this first arrival of the Holy Spirit, does my life make people wonder what make me so different? It reminds me of that old cliché: "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." If I am insulating myself from the world so much that my life is not intersecting with those who do not know Christ, how am I fulfilling His mandate to be His ambassador, His witness, His body? Now working at a Christian company, I find that I am becoming a bit more insulated and  finding ways to let my light shine not only among brothers and sisters but those most needing His light.