Luke 24:50-53
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God.
And thus, ends Luke’s Gospel, with Jesus heading off into the sunset, and they all lived happily ever after. I love happy endings.
But I don’t believe this is the end of the story. Do you? To me, this is only the beginning. Jesus saves us from all our sins here on earth, so we may experience the big prize with him in heaven. The story lives on—through each of us—and it will continue on and on and on.
This scripture also reminds me of the end of one of my favorite series of books, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis:
“And for us this is the end of all stories, and we can most truly say they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
Karen Goodlow
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