5月17日 他的升天与我们的合一
正祝福的时候，他就离开他们，被带到天上去了。（路二十四51）
主登山变像之后的经历，是我们没法体验的。从那时起，主的生命完全是为了代赎。登山之前，他过的是正常人的生活；登山之后，经过客西马尼、十字架，以至复活，都不是我们所熟悉的。他的十字架，是人类进入神生命的门；他的复活，使他有赐人永生的权柄；他的升天，使天门为人敞开。
在升天的山上，登山变像的意义就明显了。耶稣若在登山变像时升了天，他就是独自而去，对我们只是一个荣耀的形像而已。可是，他纡尊降贵，从山上下来，与堕落的人类等量齐观。
升天是登山变像的实现，我们的主这时回到他原有的荣耀里去；可是他不单是以神儿子的身份回去，也以人子的身份回到神那里去。因为人子升天，人就有自由的通道直接去到神宝座前。
作为人子，耶稣故意限制了他的权能、全知，以及无所不在的自由；升天后却全部在他掌管之中了。耶稣基督为人子，有着神宝座的一切权能，从他升天之日起直到今天，他是万王之王，万主之主。
祈祷◆主啊，我的每一方面，都彻底、完全和绝对需要你。我是一个等待你注满的庞大潭穴，以你的荣耀和美善注满我，直至涌流不息。
May 17 His Ascension And Our Union
“And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was
parted from them, and carried up into heaven.” Luke 24:51
We have no corresponding experience to the events in Our Lord’s life
after the Transfiguration. From then onwards Our Lord’s life was altogether
vicarious. Up to the time of the Transfiguration He had exhibited the normal
perfect life of a man; from the Transfiguration onwards – 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 any man, and by His
Ascension Our Lord enters heaven and keeps the door open for humanity.
On the Mount of Ascension the Transfiguration is completed. If Jesus had
gone to heaven 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 Mount to identify Himself with fallen
humanity.
The Ascension is the consummation of the Transfiguration. Our Lord does
now go back into His primal glory; but He does not go back simply as Son of
God; He goes back to God as Son of Man as well as Son of God. There is now
freedom of access for anyone straight to the very throne of God by the
Ascension of the Son of Man. As Son of Man Jesus Christ deliberately limited
omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience in Himself. Now they are His in
absolute full power. As Son of Man Jesus Christ has all power at the throne of
God. He is King of kings and Lord of lords from the day of His Ascension until
now.
