Today is the festival of Jesus' Ascension. Today is the day we mark the end of Jesus' second run on earth, the time he spent with his disciples teaching them after his resurrection. Here is how the story is recorded in Acts:
6 So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ 7He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ 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 towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards 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.’
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven?" Stop staring off into space now. Turn your eyes downward. The life to which you've been called is not in the clouds. It's all around you. It's in your messy kitchen and your disgruntled board room and your smelly locker at school. That's your life. Live it in love.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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