“In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.” (Acts 1:1-2)
We are picking up the story of Jesus about 40 days after he rose from the dead. The resurrection must have been the high point of the disciples’ lives (and ours, come to think of it). But as Jesus got ready to leave them, they were also thinking, “Now what?”
Here in Acts, Luke describes those days to us in just a few verses, picking up from where he left off in the book of Luke. We’re going to listen closely for a few days to what Jesus said to the disciples before his exit to try to hear what he might also be saying to us about what we should do with our own lives from here on out.
Think: In as few words as possible, what would you say is your big “P” purpose in life – or your top two or three, anyway?
Pray: Ask God to help you to understand how the reality of Jesus’ death and resurrection should change the way you live your own life now and in the future.
Do: Read Luke 24 to catch up to what happened from Jesus’ resurrection to this moment in the story.