June 29, Standing and Gazing

When Jesus ascended into heaven, people stood around and gawked. If we'd been there, we would have behaved the same way!

--And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:10-11)

We suppose those two men in white apparel were angels who explained to the audience of onlookers what was going on.

Jesus moved back to heaven to sit by His Father’s throne in the hub of the universe. He is like a King on a hill, where He surveys the combat on the earth beneath Him and in the air invisible to us. He can send hosts of angels, or He can conscript hosts of men and women to help with His causes. When He ascended into heaven, where He has all power, he left the disciples...and the rest of us…here to get busy with the work he left to be done. He will come back the same way he left. In the meantime, He told us, “Ye shall be witnesses unto me.” (Acts 1:8)

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Whether our loved ones can see us or even bother to look at us from heaven is a debated issue. What we do know is that Jesus is watching us! He went to heaven and sat down by the heavenly Father, but when Stephen was stoned Jesus stood in honor of this most noteworthy martyr! (Acts 7:56)

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