Come Holy Spirit

Acts 8:16
“because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus.”

How did they know?
How did they know the Holy Spirit had not come upon any of them?
Whatever the criteria or the signs showing it is clear they knew that the Holy Spirit comes upon a person.
Throughout my life I have been so convinced that the sign for the Spirit coming was the gift of tongues or certainly something like that. At the same time overlooking certain qualities that the Spirit also brings that seemed somewhat lacking in the tongue-speaker.
Things like:
Prayer and Understanding the Bible with a desire for both.
Love for others.
Power to witness.
Fruit of the Spirit.
At times I’ve even thought I’d rather not pastor a tongue-speaker if they are not going to be a reader of the Bible, not loving, not a viable witness and not show any signs of fruit. What good is tongue-speaking without those things?
I have become convinced that when the Spirit comes upon us as He does many times throughout our lives (thankfully) that all those things are the evidence, all those things still in our imperfect lives. We know and everyone knows something has happened again. But it is not something gentle. It is dramatic, overpowering, visible and audible.
Baptism into the name of Jesus is a sign of repentance, of life-change and holding to new beliefs. It is what we do, what we sign up for, it is who we decide to follow.
The Spirit coming upon us is that. It is God coming on us, breathing through us, living in us, empowering our lives.
This involves more than the gift of tongues. The world sees.
Come Holy Spirit.