Verse of the Day for October 12

The resurrection has happened. The disciples have seen him, eaten with him, been commissioned by him. Every reason to move is now in place, and the whole book that follows is about movement.

And the first instruction of the book of Acts is to stay put.

Wait for the promise. That is what they do for roughly ten days — in a room, in a city, with the most urgent news in human history and explicit orders not to go anywhere with it yet.

Luke tells us what they did with the time. They prayed, they stayed together, and they attended to one piece of unfinished business among themselves. That is it. No campaign, no strategy document.

The waiting was not a pause before the mission. It was the first act of obedience the mission required, and everything after it depended on them getting that part right.

Some seasons of stillness are not God withholding the work. They are the work, and moving early would cost you the thing you are moving with.

Ten days in a room, and then the whole world.