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Alleluia … Christ is Risen!
HE IS RISEN INDEED … ALLELUIA!
I am writing this on Ascension Day. Blink and you’d have missed it! A vital part of our Salvation Story hidden midweek between the Bank Holidays!! Arguably the most important Day in the church’s year after Good Friday!
In some ways Jesus’ Ascension completes the Easter story. It confirms what so many of you already know – that Jesus is alive still! He didn’t ‘retire’ and become an artisan carpenter doing the craft market circuit. He didn’t become a hermit, hidden away on a hillside in isolation. He ascended … taken up to heaven before the eyes of His closest followers, drawn into the clouds never to be physically seen again!
However … Ascension is not the end! We wait expecting Christ’s return, hoping for Him to come down from heaven, visible, unmissable, unmistakable. In the meantime He has promised to be with us – “I am with you always …” Matthew 28:20. With us whatever we face – “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” 1Peter 5:7.
Without Ascension the Holy Spirit would not have been able to pour out into Jesus’ Disciples, into us.
Without Ascension our prayers would be in vain – not heard, not understood, ineffective.
With Ascension we know that we have a Friend in heaven, an Advocate who understands us, a High Priest who has done what is needed for us to approach God confidently.
Give Ascension some thought – it might just lift you up too!
God Bless,
REV Mark RS Smith
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DAILY BIBLE READING
CHURCH NOTICEBOARD
WEEKLY PRAYER
FROM CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
Ascended Lord Jesus we praise you.
Once You lived a human life subject to the limitations of time:
now You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
Once You were limited to one particular place:
now You are present wherever people turn to You.
Once only those who met You face to face knew You:
now Your divine love extends through all the world.
Jesus, ascended Lord of time and space,
love as wide as life, we praise and adore You,
Amen.
Prayer theme: Give thanks and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ who was ascended to the right hand of God and given the name that is above every name.
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