Returned

"No one has risen up into the sky except the one who came down from the sky, the son of man," John 3:13.

A thousand years earlier than this conversation, Agur asked, Who's gone up into the sky and come down? He was overwhelmed by the challenge of getting wisdom. Wisdom is about living a good life. (Wisdom is about living, right? Not about dying. Living a good life or dying? what kind of choice is that?) Jesus told Nicodemus spiritual wisdom is like that: Eternal life comes from the sky. And Jesus, make no mistake about this, Jesus claims to have been there and back. Uniquely. There where? Heaven. The sky. Up high, where spiritual things take place. Where God lives. So he, Jesus, the son of man, knows about spiritual stuff. About eternal life. That's what spiritual things are about: how to live, really live a good life, forever. So Jesus knows how to get wise like that. Hear ye him.

With a brother or sister today, we look up into the sky where Jesus is, returned to the right hand of God. We set our minds on the things above, not on things of earth below. And, together, we give thanks for new birth into God's realm.