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Thoughts from Philip Yancey....

"If Easter Sunday was the most exciting day of the disciples'  lives, for Jesus, it was probably the day of Ascension  [40 days later].

"He, the Creator, who had descended so far and given up so much, was now headed home. Like a soldier returning across the ocean from a long, bloody war. Like an astronaut shedding his spacesuit to gulp in the familiar atmosphere of earth. 

"Home at last.

"Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper with His disciples reveals something of this point of view: 'I have brought You glory on earth by completing the work You gave me to do,' Jesus prayed.

'And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world began.'

Before the world began! Jesus, who was sitting in a stuffy room in Jerusalem, was letting His mind wander back to a time before the Milky Way and Andromeda. On an earthly night dark with fear and menace, Jesus was making preparations to return home, to assume the glory He had set aside."

  From, The Jesus I Never Knew, by  Philip Yancey, chapter 12.

 The God of power, He did ride

In His majestic robes of glory

Resolved to light; and so one day

He did descend, undressing all the way.

  -- George Herbert