Not Looking Far Enough Forward

Acts 1:7-8 says this, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. You will be My witnesses, telling people about Me everywhere...”

Anxious apostles earnest in asking what their Master never directed or encouraged them to seek.

And yet how often is that us? Longing for answers to future events as if the knowing somehow brings superlative peace and supreme tranquility.

And quite often our honest reasons for knowing are mixed with some degree of faith, yet a good amount of fleshly impatience; some tender love, but some selfish concern; a bit of holy discontent for a better world, and at the same time under-exaggerated laziness... looking to heaven with folded hands waiting, instead of fervent hands working for heaven of which we’ve been entrusted.

And I read it in my commentary in the fringe hours of my morning, “Our fault is not that we look forward, but that we don’t look far enough forward.”

Looking forward, longing for answers we’ve not been intended to know, keeps us focused in the wrong direction. Our eyes should be on Jesus in heaven. Why worry about 365 days when we know that eternity awaits those who’s hearts are filled with Him? Why employ worry when we can engage certainty of an eternal life with the Father?

Maybe our fault is that we don’t look far enough forward.