Ascension Teaches

In the Bible, when you look at the Gospel of Luke 24 end verses, you see Jesus Christ preparing to ascent to heaven. But before that He called His disciples and told them about events happened in His life. He told all things happened in His life according to the will of God and what was written according to the Law of Moses.

This clearly explains the life of a servant of God. When you follow Christ, your life will never be easy because you are going to fight against the darkness of devil. But according to this verse, everything is known to God, or written about your life. Once you live a faithful life as Christ lived, you are going to be honoured by God as He did to Jesus. Jesus was telling the same to His disciples.

But Jesus told the disciples to stay in the city until they are anointed by the Holy Spirit. They stayed continually at the temple and praised God (Luke 24: 44-53). One day suddenly Spirit of God came upon them and they were anointed (Acts 1: 1-11). As Christ told them, once they received the Holy Spirit, they went witnessing all over the places.

Jesus Christ is telling everyone the same truth. Once you receive him as your personal savior, wait upon the Lord, praise him and worship Him. At the appointed time, you will be anointed with the Holy Spirit. Once you are anointed, even you cannot hold yourself quite. The Spirit motivates you and provides you the strength to be a witness for Christ Jesus.

Jesus is going to come back the same way He went up. The Spirit of God is given to you to know more about Him with the wisdom and knowledge (Ephesians 1: 15-23). You need to use the gifts and fruits of the Spirit to be a blessing to the ones around you. In this way of leading them to Christ, always keep yourself Holy and pure before God, so that the God who sees you in quite times will help you grow in Jesus name 

The Visitation

In the gospel of Luke 1, you can find how an ordinary girl named Mary, got chosed to be the mother of Jesus. Yes, Mary’s name is mentioned at the start of New Testament and from then on when you check her life, it was clean, and you will find that everything she did was blessed.

So why did God chosed her? The answer is simple. She was a humble person whom God trusted. Even after she got the good news that she is going to be the mother of the savior, she was humble and praised and sang glory to the Lord.

When God’s grace is shown more on your life, don’t think that you are higher than anyone. When God use you in a particular way, don’t show pride. Everyone have different gifts and God wants everyone to use their gifts for God’s glory (Romans 12). When you have the authority of God, don’t curse, but bless everyone, even the one who persecutes you. You need to take steps to associate with the people who are in low position, encourage them and provide help and motivation for them to come up in life. In doing so, you are glorifying God with the gifts and fruits he has given to you.

Mary was not proud, but was humble and sang praise to God. When you see 1 Samuel 2, you see almost similar praise from Hannah, the mother of Prophet Samuel. In just one read, you can understand how Mary was attached to the word of God. No wonder God chosed her.

Same way God is still choosing people to show His glory through them. He wants people who are humble and who always praises him. If you feel that you are good for nothing, accept Christ, repent all your sins to Jesus and follow him by reading his word and living a humble life. Read Psalm 113, sing and praise God with hope and see how He is going to honor your faith.