Have you ever known someone famous? Have you ever seen someone on TV and thought, hey, I know that guy! And felt that tinge of participation, as though you shared in their acheivement? Thought of when you played together when you were young "yeah, I can see the potential even back then'?
Have they ever drawn you into their world, introduced you to other big names?
Imagine how Joseph's brothers would have felt coming to Egypt. Lowly foreigners begging for food. Leaving a brother behind, bringing another, and then finding out, hey, I know that ruler of this massive rich Empire! Aside from the shame of having sold him to slaves, there must have been a surreal awe and joy.
Imagine how the disciples must have felt, seeing Jesus ascend to the right hand of God. It wasn't as if Jesus was a man, died, came back to life as a man, and then suddenly became a distant God. This was their mate, their leader, their friend, ascended to the highest place. And as they realised that that meant he was God, they must have thought back over their time together, and seen it all in a fresh light. Jesus has entered into the heavens, as a spirit filled man, in an amazing position to say of his friends 'they're with me'
When I was younger I got in trouble for praying "too chummy" with God. God (and Jesus) are to be revered. And rightly so. Yet it is our friend we revere. It is our fleshy friend Jesus. The same bloke who ate fish on the beach is enthroned as Lord. When we look at the ascension we see Jesus revealed as divine, but that has to force us to think of God humanised.
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