Happy ascension day!
Today is the day in the beginning of Acts/End of Luke we get Jesus ascending into heaven and the disciples looking and wondering what is going on…
Jesus has gone from the disciples and now is the great in between! Jesus is gone and according to Acts the Holy Spirit has not come yet, and that is Pentecost – 10 days away! We are separated from Jesus and now we have to wait 10 days before the comforter comes. But when She does we will get power! Power! Visions of Despicable Me flowing through my head… All of the evil villains there ever were because power is what we all want. Power to control, power to yield, power to make others do what we want them to. Power that comes from money, and status and that is what is coming to all of us in 10 days…
That is not the power Jesus speaks of or that the Holy Spirit will bring us. Power in this sense is not physical might or the ability to produce an effect. It is not our ability to produce anything! God does it all. Power that is coming is our link to a source of energy. The Holy Spirit will plug us into God and give us the energy to go and do for Him. And this source of energy will allow us to do what Jesus said, “and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” And to understand this, know Jerusalem was the center of the known world, and Judea was the space just out and around that was Samaria, then everywhere… concentric circles out… like a stone thrown in the water causes ripples and moves out, that is what the energy source we have been given will allow us to do.
The power you’ve been given by the Holy Spirit is not something to yield, but it something to share.
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