Acts 1:12-26

"And when they entered, they went up to the upper room...All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer..." How fitting that the passage of the early church starts with something that resonates so close to my life right now. With all the trials and struggles of this life, community has never ceased to encourage and sharpen my life towards walking obediently with God. In this passage the Apostles are gathered together in the "upper room" to pray for the Spirit to lead them in filling Judas' once apostleship role. They stayed there fervently praying for God to reveal Himself so that they might start building the church. What would that look like in my community at church? We call ourselves "Upper Room" for reasons I never knew til now. Maybe it's the "upper room" of Jesus' Last Supper. Most likely..yeah, that's what the idea might have been geared towards initially. But when I read these verses, I clearly fixated on how they all gathered in hopes of the Holy Spirit to reveal itself. Too many times we just ask for the Spirit in a rush of hope. But how many times will we be obedient and patiently wait for the Spirit to come? I hope that's what my community will look one day. May it be a community where we would gather and just pray for the Spirit to lead and that God would reveal his guidance to us. We're all in different spiritual places right now. Shoot...there's almost a decade in gap between some of our members. But as we grow together, I hope we can really see that our gathering is more than a gathering. It's for an anticipation. An anticipation of direction and a charge to move forth and to build a church, just like what happened to the 12 Apostles in Acts. May that be our prayer and hope.