What would it have felt to experience the Lord of glory in his earthly body for three years? To dine with Jesus, to sing with Jesus, to laugh, to cry, to hear the Word made flesh speak words to our flesh? And then to taste of his death with the bitter herbs of a funeral liturgy? But three days later, to taste of the fatted calf in his resurrection and believe that through his hands stained by the blood of death, pierced by the tools of evil men; to believe that he is alive again!
Imagine the emotional roller coaster you have experienced only to have him say to you 40 days later, “I am leaving.” This time, I am not going to Sheol, I am going to heaven; to reign for you and with you, and I am sending my Spirit to be within you.
Jesus ascends, so we might dine with the experience of his death, burial, and resurrection at the forefront of our minds. The Lord who died was raised; the Lord who was raised ascended; the Lord who ascended will come again. Like the earthly disciples, we too dine, sing, laugh, and rejoice together around a table with a vindicated man-made flesh, Jesus Christ.
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