Looking Up Beyond What You Can See 3/12/2018

Good Morning,
A little Door County Jamaican Blue Mountain Blend Coffee is in order on this fine Monday morning. I worked through most of the weekend and the coffee will taste good and warm up these tired bones.

Part of the work we did this weekend was to lift some heavy steel on top of the hospital where I spend my time. This steel will hold some air conditioning infrastructure for a pharmacy. Several of us worked to oversee the project, along with our contactor partners. I took some pictures of the crane work, but the photo I attached to the blog reminded me of a future event. One we will all see and should expect. This photo is a shot from the bottom of the crane looking to the top of the crane. My thoughts turned to the future and the second coming of Jesus. We all know He is coming back, down from heaven and we should expect Him. I wondered what I will be doing when He returns. Will I be alive? Will I be coming out of the grave to join Him? I will meet Jesus in the air. Today, take time to look beyond the immediate and look at the future. Are you ready for His return? What if He came today?

The Book Of Acts 1:4-11 NKJV

The Holy Spirit Promised

⁴ And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; ⁵ for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ⁶ Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷ And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. ⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Jesus Ascends to Heaven

⁹ Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. ¹⁰ And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, ¹¹ who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”

Are you ready? 

Acts 4:11-14 New King James Version (NKJV)
¹¹ This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’^{[a] 12} Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴ And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

God bless,

Marty