Acts 1:1-12 (cont.)
So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority." - (6-7)
From Moses (Ps 90:13) to David (Ps 6:3), the psalmists implored the Lord: How long? It is often our plea, too: How long must injustice and violence last? Our response to what we perceive to be God's failure to act as he should is too often to take matters into our own hands, answering injustice with impatient overreach - and, therefore, usually another form of injustice.
It isn't that God doesn't want us to act, but that he doesn't want us to over reach, to do wrong in the name of addressing wrong. He wants us to exercise bold humility, putting love into action within appropriate boundaries, and not trying to correct the mistakes we think that he has made.
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