0517 祂的升天和我們的通路
正祝福的時候，他就離開他們，被帶到天上去了。《路加福音24:51》
我們生活中沒有任何經歷與主變像後生活中的事件相對應，從那一刻起，祂的生命全然是替代性的。在變像之前，祂已經展現了人類正常、完全的生活。但從變像開始，客西馬尼園、十字架、復活，一切對我們來說都是陌生的。祂的十字架是人類種族每個成員都可以進入神的生命之門；憑藉祂的復活，祂有權賜予任何人永生，藉着祂的升天，我們的主進入天堂，為人類敞開天門。
變像是在昇天山上完成的，如果耶穌直接從變像山昇天，祂就會獨自一人去；對我們來說，祂不過是一個榮耀形象而已。但祂轉身背對榮耀，從山上下來，與墮落的人類認同。
升天就是變像的完全實現，我們的主回到了祂原有的榮耀，但不僅僅是作為神的兒子，祂也作為人子回到祂的父那裡。由於人子的升天，現在任何人都可以自由地直接來到神的寶座前。作為人子，耶穌基督有意限制祂的全能、全在和全知；但現在它們是祂絕對、完全擁有的權能。作為人子，耶穌基督現在擁有神寶座上的所有權力。從祂升天開始，祂就是萬王之王並萬主之主。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們應該總是像神選擇我們的朋友一樣選擇我們的書籍，就是比我們高一點點，這樣我們就必須盡最大水平的努力跟上他們的步伐。《神手陰影》
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