5月17日 他的升天與我們的合一

正祝福的時候，他就離開他們，被帶到天上去了。（路二十四51）

主登山變像之後的經歷，是我們沒法體驗的。從那時起，主的生命完全是為了代贖。登山之前，他過的是正常人的生活；登山之後，經過客西馬尼、十字架，以至復活，都不是我們所熟悉的。他的十字架，是人類進入神生命的門；他的復活，使他有賜人永生的權柄；他的升天，使天門為人敞開。

在升天的山上，登山變像的意義就明顯了。耶穌若在登山變像時升了天，他就是獨自而去，對我們只是一個榮耀的形像而已。可是，他紆尊降貴，從山上下來，與墮落的人類等量齊觀。

升天是登山變像的實現，我們的主這時回到他原有的榮耀裡去；可是他不單是以神兒子的身份回去，也以人子的身份回到神那裡去。因為人子升天，人就有自由的通道直接去到神寶座前。

作為人子，耶穌故意限制了他的權能、全知，以及無所不在的自由；升天後卻全部在他掌管之中了。耶穌基督為人子，有著神寶座的一切權能，從他升天之日起直到今天，他是萬王之王，萬主之主。

祈禱◆主啊，我的每一方面，都徹底、完全和絕對需要你。我是一個等待你注滿的龐大潭穴，以你的榮耀和美善注滿我，直至湧流不息。

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.