And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me." Acts 1:4
We can imagine ourselves there in Jerusalem on a quiet morning a couple of weeks after the man from Nazareth had been put to death. Those who did not want to believe the stories of the resurrection had the bought and paid for testimony of the soldiers; while those who believed were lying low even as they, strangely, refused to recant their testimony of the Son of God. And yet those reports of the living and risen Jesus kept rising up each day for forty days. It seemed that every time people got together somewhere, someone else had seen this man alive again! And those disciples of His were known by all to still be there in that upper room in Jerusalem. What were they waiting for?
From the reading in the Acts of the Apostles, we know that the day would come when those disciples of Jesus would suddenly become lions of the Word, in quite a few languages at that. No more would they lie low in that upper room waiting, but ventured forth in an explosion of evangelical preaching such as the world had not seen before. It was a startling start of a new church!
Loving one another we go on in Christ,
Bucky
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