My brothers and sisters, my word of encouragement for you today is to keep looking up! Why? Well, in the book Acts 1:6-11 Luke said this, “6 So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?” 7 He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him. 10 As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!”
The men of Galilee aka the disciples responded to the two white-robed men (who some believed to be Elijah and Moses) correctly and this too should be our response when someone ask us, “Why are you standing there staring into heaven?
At the end of the day, Revelation 19:10 says, “The essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus and Apostle John follows-up with this profound photogenic imagery, “Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. Its rider was named Faithful and True, for he judges fairly and wages a righteous war” (Revelations 19:11).
The kingdom of God is near and now more than ever it behooves us to keep looking up because Jesus our Lord and Savior is about to make some noise!
4GIVEN 