Year C: Ascension

Second Reading: Ephesians 1: 17-23

In our day-to-day lives, it is all to easy to get bogged down in the routine and mundane. Even our Christian life can become bland and uninspiring. We cannot always live on the mountaintops - or filled with an acute sense of the presence of God. But such occasions - however rare - are given to us to encourage us - to remind us of what we are doing and what our destiny is.

In the part of his letter to the Ephesians we hear today, Paul resets their sights on the one who called them. This is not something that they can see with physical eyes - or hear through their ears -rather it is a sight that depends on the gift of God. The same God who raised Jesus from the dead and restored him to his right hand in heaven - this is the God who promises believers an inheritance beyond anything they could have imagined.

Ours is not an earthly Lord - confined by human frailty and mortality. Ours is a cosmic Christ set about all sovereignties and powers in time and beyond it. This is the Lord whom we serve. This is the Lord in whom God's promises to the Jewish people were fulfilled - the one in whom his promises to us will also be fulfilled when he returns in glory to establish his reign for ever.

What does it mean for me?

What words or phrases strike you as you hear or read the Reading? What message do they offer you as a disciple of Jesus Christ - as one of his witnesses commissioned to tell people of the glory that awaits them?

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