Previous page | Main ALOVE site Archive   The Upper Room ... : back to god page    Nervous, with no idea what we’re doing here. ALOVE joins the disciples in the upper room. The walls of this room seem very close. There are a good number of us in here, and everyone is hovering on the edge of anxiety and anticipation. We had thought life could not have changed any more radically than it did when we met him. After that, those of us who chose to follow knew that life would never be the same. And it wasn’t. Three years of miracles, controversies, crowds, constant travel and a whole new way of looking at the world. The power of his words, his actions, his stories and his love went beyond all boundaries, all restrictions, all ideologies and all philosophies. We thought it would take over the world. But now? Could we really deny the evidence of our eyes? We saw the body taken from the cross, prepared for burial, and placed in the tomb. He was gone. We felt lost. Should we be tempted to believe that the past three years was just a dream? These are our questions. We don’t have the answers. We have no idea what we’re really doing here or what’s coming next and the waiting is killing us. Outside the confines of the room are groups who would love to see us accused, tried, and killed for treachery, blasphemy, whatever charge would stick. Not so much because they think we have any real power – not after what they did to our leader – but just to tie up all the loose ends. We all know there would be no real hope of a defence against them either. Our enemies have shown just how capable they are at prosecuting the innocent. What should we do? Separate and go our own ways? Head back home and try to forget the whole thing ever happened? Or should we get out and do something, speak to people, follow through with the promise, make ourselves feel productive? Yet the word was to wait; for someone; something; right here in Jerusalem. He said he would send a counsellor; that we would be witnesses of his salvation for the whole world, and that he would be with us until the end. So we are trying to lay down our fears and uncertainties, and to pray for this promised counsellor. We are asking for the Spirit of our Lord to be amongst us as it was before. It is the dominant theme in our every waking and sleeping thought, our every conversation, our every hope for the immediate and distant future. So we sit and wonder and wait. : back to top : back to god page Youthwork - The Partnership ... ALOVE, Youthwork Magazine, Youth For Christ, Spring Harvest and Oasis are working together to equip and resource the Church for effective youth work and ministry.