Acts 1-18

I have been thinking about keeping a blog for religious discussions for awhile now. I am currently taking a religion class from BYU-Idaho, and now I have the perfect excuse to start posting my thoughts about what I am studying in class.

This last week we read Acts 1-18. I found a few things very interesting about these chapters.
In Acts 1:7 it says:
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

I interpret this to mean that God works on His own time table and not ours. We have been given many gifts and sometimes we forget who is giving those gifts to us. We seem to find a way to want something right now instead of being patient and knowing that God will show us His plan when the time is right. 

In Acts 7:21-34 it says:
 21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

 23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

 26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

 29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,

 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

I love this story of Moses and how she knew that this was one of the sons Pharaoh was going to kill but they saved him and raised him as their own. I feel like this is a good lesson for us on judging others and being compassionate on everyone around us. I am guilty of this too, I find myself judging someone before I really know anything about that person. I really want to look at others the way God does, as a child of God.