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Acts 3:21 · World English Bible

Acts 3:21 Meaning Whom Heaven Must Receive Until the Times

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

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What does Acts 3:21 mean?

The old story tells of a figure taken up into heaven and kept there until the right moment. Seen from within, heaven is the deep part of the mind, where images wait before a person is ready to meet them.

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The old story tells of a figure taken up into heaven and kept there until the right moment. Seen from within, heaven is the deep part of the mind, where images wait before a person is ready to meet them. The picture of a whole person rests there.

The restoration of all things is the moment the scattered pieces of a life come back together into one. It cannot be forced. People sensed this pattern long ago because it lives in everyone, and the image of wholeness stays out of reach until a person has grown enough to take it in.

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Live Acts 3:21 today

  1. Leave one unresolved thing unresolved today, the decision you keep turning over at 11pm. Set it down and let it finish forming without you standing over it.
  2. With someone you want to change, your kid, your partner, a friend who is stuck, skip the push this once. Stay close and let them arrive on their own clock.
  3. When a project stalls and you feel the urge to force it through before the deadline, give it the night. Coming back whole beats arriving broken.

What are you trying to hurry that is only going to come together in its own time?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 15

Can you stay still while the muddy water settles? Clarity arrives on its own when you stop stirring for it.

Zen

Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. There is no technique for making it happen sooner.

Confucianism · Mencius

The farmer who pulled on his seedlings to help them grow came back to a field of dead plants. Some growth only ruins under forcing.

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