Acts 1:6

Acts 1:6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

Oftentimes when somebody is giving us instructions we are quick to think, if I’m supposed to do this it must mean this, we want to know everything all at once. Likewise, here the disciples as soon as they are told to wait for the Holy Spirit to come, they assume that Jesus telling them to wait in Jerusalem for the coming of the Holy Spirit must have something to do with the restoring of the kingdom to Israel. This restoration of the kingdom was a part of many of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah, and because Jesus was the Messiah, they assumed that the restoration should take place while he was on the earth, or at least as soon as he sent the Holy Spirit. They wanted to figure out what was going to was going to happen when the Spirit came, and they were quick to ask for an incentive on waiting, and most of the time so am I.

Application-I will continue to work on trusting God with my circumstances, knowing that he has a plan for me that I can only follow step by step, trusting that he has something good in store for me even when some of the details of his plan are painful.