New Power

Read Acts 1:6-8

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

God left us a job to do on earth. God's kingdom is not a pie in the sky - heaven is not just 'up there'. God's kingdom will come when He brings about a union of the new heaven and new earth in a new way (Read Rev 21 and Eph 1). Jesus new resurrected body functions kind of illustrates this 'newness".

The disciples were told not to worry about the time when the kingdom 'would be restored' but they were told to be faithful to the commission Jesus gave them.

Jesus has all the 'authority' as the Resurrected Savior in verse 7. We are told one day 'every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Phil 2:10,11) This gives us tremendous comfort: no earthly authority is vested without the permission of God; no earthly organisation and person has absolute authority except Jesus. It gives us boldness and courage to appeal to the absolute authority on earth and in heaven, Jesus. He is the just and loving One who holds the full authority.

Notice too that we are given 'power'. The word 'power' used here is 'dynamis', where the word 'dynamite' is derived from. This is the promise given to us who seeks to do God's will and fulfil his Great Commission to testify of who Jesus is. We will receive 'dynamite' or power to do so. How? By waiting to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4,5)

My cell phone is an amazing tool for me to connect with my friends and loved ones but if i don't take time to charge it every now and then, it becomes a useless piece of technology junk. It fulfils it function only when i remember to charge its battery and that takes time.

Take time to charge your 'power' and then you can be witnesses for Christ in a dynamic way.