0517 祂的升天和我们的通路
正祝福的时候，他就离开他们，被带到天上去了。《路加福音24:51》
我们生活中没有任何经历与主变像后生活中的事件相对应，从那一刻起，祂的生命全然是替代性的。在变像之前，祂已经展现了人类正常、完全的生活。但从变像开始，客西马尼园、十字架、复活，一切对我们来说都是陌生的。祂的十字架是人类种族每个成员都可以进入神的生命之门；凭藉祂的复活，祂有权赐予任何人永生，藉着祂的升天，我们的主进入天堂，为人类敞开天门。
变像是在昇天山上完成的，如果耶稣直接从变像山昇天，祂就会独自一人去；对我们来说，祂不过是一个荣耀形象而已。但祂转身背对荣耀，从山上下来，与堕落的人类认同。
升天就是变像的完全实现，我们的主回到了祂原有的荣耀，但不仅仅是作为神的儿子，祂也作为人子回到祂的父那里。由于人子的升天，现在任何人都可以自由地直接来到神的宝座前。作为人子，耶稣基督有意限制祂的全能、全在和全知；但现在它们是祂绝对、完全拥有的权能。作为人子，耶稣基督现在拥有神宝座上的所有权力。从祂升天开始，祂就是万王之王并万主之主。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们应该总是像神选择我们的朋友一样选择我们的书籍，就是比我们高一点点，这样我们就必须尽最大水平的努力跟上他们的步伐。《神手阴影》
0517 His Ascension and Our Access
It came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. —Luke 24:51
We have no experiences in our lives that correspond to the events in our Lord’s life after the transfiguration. From that moment forward His life was altogether substitutionary. Up to the time of the transfiguration, He had exhibited the normal, perfect life of a man. But from the transfiguration forward— 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 anyone, and by His ascension our Lord entered heaven, keeping the door open for humanity.
The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly 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 mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.
The ascension is the complete fulfillment of the transfiguration. Our Lord returned to His original glory, but not simply as the Son of God— He returned to His father as the Son of Man as well. There is now freedom of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God because of the ascension of the Son of Man. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ deliberately limited His omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. But now they are His in absolute, full power. As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ now has all the power at the throne of God. From His ascension forward He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them. –Shade of His Hand, 1216 L