Acts 1:9-11
9When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
These two verses are the pinnacle of the ascension story; these are the verses that tell us what happens when Jesus leaves this earth. Just before he leaves he says to his disciples that they will receive the Holy Spirit and “be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” So when the two men in white robes approach them, they’ve been given a task and they’ve seen a strange and wonderful sight.
This isn’t all that different from our own sending as witnesses to Christ. We’ve all seen some strange and wonderful things – maybe no one has ascended into heaven, bodily, while we’ve been watching, but certainly we can all recount some strange and wonderful sites. Go in peace, for you have been sent as witnesses of Christ, so that all might know Christ.
Thanks be to God! Alleluia!
Pastor Jenn
Join us for Ascension Day Worship this evening at 7:00.
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