Waiting for God to Act

This week’s text is from Luke 24:44-53

Jesus instructs his disciples to wait for him to send them “power from on high” after he has started to finally explain to them what they have been struggling to understand - a story with which we are now very familiar. The son of God must suffer at the hands of humanity, die, and be raised again and in so doing bring forgiveness and reconciliation with God. This fulfills all that has been written so far.

So a couple things to reflect on as we get started this week: The first crucial act of the disciples, as the very first to receive the Spirit, the very first to hear the Gospel news from Jesus himself, is to sit down and wait.

Its a little anti-climactic. It is also crucial. The timing matters. What God is up to has strings laid out in every life of every one everywhere. The timing matters.

It is the same for us in our lives - whether it is as we begin to consider how and when to pick up pieces of our old responsibilities and lives as the Covid19 situations changes, or what it means in our spiritual and daily lives to await God’s action or God’s call for us to act.

Timing matters. God’s timing is not our timing just as God’s ways are not our ways. When have you had to wait on God? What was it like? did you feel cared for while you waited, like you were able to trust that God was acting on your behalf - or did you feel alone or abandoned, impatient with what seemed like an absent or impotent God?

The first act of the apostles was to wait for the spirit. Can we do the same?

Prayer: Lord God - thank you for that you act for us - that you know the right timing, that you see all possibilities, and that you have sent us a friend to aid us in this life as we make our way to the next. Give us patience and a sense of the bigger picture even when we are frustrated or feeling abandoned. In Jesus’ name. AMEN.