What is the Right Question?
(NIV) Acts 1:4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
While we are still in what some refer to as Eastertide, I was considering a couple of things.
I have often advised new Christians to “read the red before you go to bed.” The Gospels are so foundational to our faith and indeed our understanding of Who Jesus is. But here we are in the book of Acts, the Acts of the Apostles, and Jesus is speaking outside of the Gospels .
The account of Jesus’ final statement to His disciples is brief, but for me it is so disturbing. After 3 1/2 years of almost constant companionship, culminating in 40 days of additional teaching, the disciples ask the wrong question!
How can they still be focused on restoration of a political kingdom when the Son of God has been preparing them for the kingdom of heaven?
But then my mind shifts to wondering what are the wrong questions we are asking? I think of the Doris Day song “Que Sera Sera”:
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, “What will I be?”
“Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?”
Here’s what she said to me.
Will we ever reach the point in our spiritual journey where the only question left to ask is “what is it You need of me?” Or perhaps very simply saying, “Here am I, Lord.”
May we draw closer to Jesus today than we were yesterday.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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