The Lord had just commissioned them to be witnesses unto Him in Jerusalem, Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. They knew that the Lord meant what He said, but He had left no detailed instructions of any kind, no plan, no blueprint to follow! He simply went off without writing any plans! The only thing He told them to do was to wait in Jerusalem for the power if the Holy Ghost to come upon them.
Numerically, they were very few; that was a great problem. But in addition to this, there were three other great mountains which were against them; and which they had to overcome.
- The nation of Jews who hated them.
- The political Roman rulers who kept them in bondage.
- The Greeks with their idolatrous culture.
Whenever we receive a message from God, or a charge of any kind, the first question we ask is, “How do we begin?” You may also be feeling that is a very heavy responsibility, and that ‘our case’ is different. We would therefore like some clear direction. But God doesn’t work that way. They were so disturbed that He had gone; that their Lord Jesus had gone! They had been told plainly that the Lord Jesus Christ would be coming back again, and they had only to believe Him and wait. They must go and wait, as they were told to wait, and in God’s time, He would Himself tell them what to do next.
Today’s calendar’s Bible verse:
“Be of good comfort: thy faith had made thee whole” Luke.8:48.
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