The Ascension [Ongoing]

Acts 1:6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed 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 and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:6-8 ESV

When it comes to the church calendar we often forget the ongoing nature of special days gone by. Its like a birthday: we celebrate (or mourn) being a year older but in actuality we are another day older each day culminating by His grace in another year given. The same goes with special days according to the church calendar like Easter. Easter is not a one and done day but ongoing. We learned this through the Creed: he ascended and is seated at the right hand of God the Father. And He is still ascended and seated until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.

This past Thursday (5/24) on the church calendar was ascension day where the church worldwide celebrates the ascension of our Lord. Without the ascension the promise of Jesus to send a helper, the Holy Spirit, would have been fulfilled.

On that same day was the horrors of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in UVALDE, Texas. Is Jesus still ascended and seated? Yes but his being seated is not a matter of inactivity. He is interceding for us.

34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Rom 8:34 ESV

He is interceding and so should we. Let's lament, mourn, and pray for the families of the victims: children and teachers who lost their lives.

And let us be reminded that one day Jesus will return. He will come to judge the living and the dead.

He is not dead nor are we. We are alive in Him and His Spirit is in us uniting us to him. We believe in the Holy Spirit.

Because of the Spirit in the meantime we have been empowered to be his witnesses and what is impossible with man is possible with God.

What is impossible for you? How shall we be His witnesses? How shall we be salt and light to a decaying and dark world.

Only by His Spirit. We believe in the Holy Spirit.