Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers takes a very powerful look at what JESUS did for US!
His
Ascension And Our Union
And it came
to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into
heaven. — Luke 24:51
We have no
corresponding experience to the events in Our Lord’s life after the
Transfiguration. From then onwards Our Lord’s life was altogether vicarious. Up
to the time of the Transfiguration He had exhibited the normal perfect life of
a man; from the Transfiguration onwards — Gethsemane, the Cross, the
Resurrection — everything is unfamiliar to us. His Cross is the door by which
every member of the human race can enter into the life of God; by His
Resurrection He has the right to give eternal life to any man, and by His
Ascension Our Lord enters heaven and keeps the door open for humanity.
On the Mount
of Ascension the Transfiguration is completed. If Jesus had gone to heaven from
the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone; He would have been
nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory,
and came down from the Mount to identify Himself with fallen humanity.
The
Ascension is the consummation of the Transfiguration. Our Lord does now go back
into His primal glory; but He does not go back simply as Son of God; He goes
back to God as Son of Man as well as Son of God. There is now freedom
of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God by the Ascension of the
Son of Man. As Son of Man Jesus Christ deliberately limited omnipotence,
omnipresence and omniscience in Himself. Now they are His in absolute full
power. As Son of Man Jesus Christ has all power at the throne of God. He is
King of kings and Lord of lords from the day of His Ascension until now.
HALLELUJAH! We are now HIS because of all that HE and HE alone did for US! Our ONLY responsibility is to BELIEVE and RECEIVE! Have YOU? I pray that you have and that you will continue to grow up in Him and to share HIS life with everyone you come in contact with! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Never Have I Ever":
Shalom in Him!