Luke 24:50-51
Let’s continue to pray for Jim and Marty.
“Notice what you notice.” Jesus’ Ascension+, #2 (Luke). …and were continually in the temple blessing [or praising] God. (v. 53) My Study Bible suggested that there were many rooms in the temple area and that the disciples probably met in one of those. I’m not buying it. I see them gathered together in a very open space, readily inviting others to join them. Now that Jesus has been with them for 40 days, I don’t see them cowering in fear or huddled together quietly somewhere in Jerusalem. Yes, they were together in that “upper room” to elect Matthias and on the day of Pentecost (Acts 1:13, 15, 2:1) and I suspect they gathered there regularly, maybe even every evening after spending the day in the temple area. But daytimes in the temple, I see them sharing the Good News with one another and with passers-by.
Today is Day #365 of 365. Today I am posting for the 364th time this year. The only day I missed was February 22, my hip replacement surgery. I give you this information, not to laud myself, but very humbly thanking God for giving me the discipline and determination to undertake this task every day. Naturally I thank Carol for “covering” for me as needed in the house and allowing me to spend much of my first hour(s) in the day putting these posts together. And I am thankful for each of you. Sometime early in the year I began to pray for myself and each of you before I began my reading. And I am confident that I have been in your prayers also. With it all, 365 days are now completed, our “Read Through the Gospels” has ended. We begin tomorrow with Acts 1:1-8 and we’ll gather this Sunday, 1/5 as an RTB group beginning its 12th year!! GLORY!!
Slava Bohu!
Thank you Fred, for encouraging me and all of us to keep up daily. I too have been blessed by this. We won’t be back Sunday in time for church or RTB, but I am looking forward to Acts and Epistles in 2020.
I agree about the notion that they were not “hiding” in a separate room in the temple. They were there continually blessing God, with each other and probably whoever was there. I just don’t see them with the preaching power of Pentecost.