Offering the World Christ

Acts 1: 10-11

“10 While he {Christ} was going {ascending} and they {Disciples} were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11 They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Watching Christ ascending into the heavens, we can only imagine what the disciples were thinking.   Scripture says they stood staring upward until men in white robes (angels?) woke them from their reverie and assured them of Christ’s return.

It is often easier to gaze heavenward than it is to face the realities of the world.   But it is in the facing of the world that we allow the Holy Spirit to work within us and give the world the example of Christ.

It is good to gaze up toward heaven, but after we gaze, we are to offer the world our vision.

May the love of Christ be with you,

Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)