What's Possible Now?

Verses 3-4 of Acts 1 tell us, “After [Jesus’] suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father.”

 

What’s intriguing to me is Jesus’ “staying” with the disciples in Jerusalem while they waited there for the “promise of the Father.”  As they waited, Jesus waited. Unlike the disciples who could not stay awake and wait with Jesus before he was arrested, Jesus waits with his them.  He doesn’t go ahead and say “I’ll be back! Wait here.” He, like the disciples, is waiting for the promise to be fulfilled.  

 

We are in a period of waiting, wondering what is to come.  The risen Lord meets us in our waiting, moving us deeper in relationship with him.  

 

Next step:  Wait patiently for a good thing is coming

 

Lessons: Acts 1:1-14, Mark 6:7-13

 

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