Remain In Me
These three words we have heard several times during the later days of the Easter Season. For me they have particular impact as we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord. "Remain" is a word that speaks of a reality that has already existed. It is different than "come in and stay." "Remain implies that I am encouraged to continue on in a particular state of being or particular place.
From time immemorial, you and I, we have been in the mind of God. We existed in God's world, God's mind. He has forever had plans for each of us. Even before our most distant relatives came to be, God knew that each of us would have a day when we were to leave that mind of God to become one of his creations. It is as if we were in the eternal world of God and he said to us "today you will be born on the earth with my hope that you will live out your life as I have planned it for you."
"Remain in me" Jesus says as a reminder to us that we continue to be the creation that God wants us to be. Ours in the challenge in this world when we are apart from God's kingdom, his intention for us, existing in a world where sin and grace are realities. "Remain in me" is Jesus' reminder to us to continue to do all we can to continue that awareness of God's will for us.
As we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus, ours is the call to renew our intention to be what God wants us to be, to renew our intention to strive to follow in the footsteps of his Son, Jesus, who completes his time living among us as a man and as the Risen Lord Jesus.
From time immemorial, you and I, we have been in the mind of God. We existed in God's world, God's mind. He has forever had plans for each of us. Even before our most distant relatives came to be, God knew that each of us would have a day when we were to leave that mind of God to become one of his creations. It is as if we were in the eternal world of God and he said to us "today you will be born on the earth with my hope that you will live out your life as I have planned it for you."
"Remain in me" Jesus says as a reminder to us that we continue to be the creation that God wants us to be. Ours in the challenge in this world when we are apart from God's kingdom, his intention for us, existing in a world where sin and grace are realities. "Remain in me" is Jesus' reminder to us to continue to do all we can to continue that awareness of God's will for us.
As we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus, ours is the call to renew our intention to be what God wants us to be, to renew our intention to strive to follow in the footsteps of his Son, Jesus, who completes his time living among us as a man and as the Risen Lord Jesus.
