In the past several weeks, as I have been studying the book of Acts, the Lord has been impressing on me, the importance for the church today to remain ‘urgent in our waiting’.   The disciples were told to ‘wait’ at Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit and His accompanying explosive power.  Being human, I can only imagine their impatience and desire to be about fulfilling the last instructions of the Lord, to be His ‘witnesses’.  Yet Jesus told them to wait.  There are numerous reasons for Jesus telling them to wait and we at CHCC will be unfolding those reasons over the next several weeks.  However, the scriptures seem clear that the attitude of the New Testament Church in these days following Jesus’ ascension is one that the contemporary church needs to study. Whether or not we see this first band of believers as a proper example in every aspect for today’s church, we must agree that their urgency and desire for their Lord, is certainly a trait which we lack and should  aspire to.  Jesus’ last instructions to them and the angels admonition is just as timely and as germane to us today as it was 2000 years ago.  He is coming back!  He is faithful and true to His word and promises!  The Holy Spirit is just as dynamic in power as He was then in transforming souls from enemies of God to lover’s of God through the proclamation of the gospel message! Are we urgently desiring His return today?  Is the urgency of our message and the impetus of our lives  a desire to make much about God?  Do we desire Him?  Nothing has changed in the 2000 years since the these words were written except our complacency.  The urgency of the time and message has given way to satisfaction. C.S. Lewis wrote that as Christians  ‘we are far too easily pleased’.  Meaning that we are too easily satisfied with messing around with the temporal pleasures and blessings of this world when infinite joy is available.   We need to begin to desire God with all of our being and develop an urgency like that of the first century church. I came across the following excellent short video that expresses far better than I can, what should be the desire of each of us that call Him Lord. Do You Desire God? – Paul Washer from I’ll Be Honest on Vimeo. Soli Deo Gloria