Acts 1:7 Meaning He Said to Them

The request for a restored kingdom gets no schedule, because the Father keeps the timing in his own hands and Christ will not pry it loose even for his closest friends. Curiosity about the end can quietly crowd out the work at hand.

That work arrives one line later: the Holy Spirit coming down, and witnesses to Christ carried from Jerusalem outward to everyone. Catholics treat this as the Church's standing job, handed on through the apostles' successors, and Confirmation, the sacrament that seals a baptized person with the same Spirit, is given for exactly that witness.

No calendar outside you carries the moment God wakes within. The times and the seasons are not dates in the world's history but the fixed order of an inner unfolding, four great acts that arrive one after another in their own hour, and no straining of the mind hurries them. The Father who holds that power in his own keeping is your own deeper self, and he sets the season for his own birth in you.

While you wait, another power is entirely yours. You cannot command when the son awakens and calls you Father, yet you can command the state you hold, assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled and letting it harden into fact. The one you cannot rush; the other answers you now. What ripens on its own schedule is your awakening as God, and it comes when it is ready, not when you demand it.