Jesus Ascended

This Sunday's sermon will be about Jesus ascending in Acts 1:1-11. I wrote this poem as I prepared.

Jesus Ascended
By Larry Linville

Jesus ascended.
The disciples watched.
They kept looking up after he was gone.

Two men in robes
stood by their sides.
“Why do you stand looking up?”

They said to go
to Jerusalem
to worship and to pray.

We are like them.
We stand looking up
when we should be looking ahead.

If they kept looking up
and hadn’t prayed
they’d not been ready when the Spirit came.

If we worship
we’ll be prepared
for our own special Pentecost.

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