Glorification (6)
  1. When Jesus ascends, he does so, bearing gifts for you.
  2. The ascension is not about Jesus going away. It's about Jesus taking his rightful place so that he might fill the world with his presence and power.
  3. Alligood is at pains to stress that glorification is not the result of our own efforts any more than sanctification or justification.
  4. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  5. Look to the crucifix. There you see God as God is, in Himself. You see God in action for you.
  6. Forty days after His resurrection from the dead, Jesus ascended.