Gospel Sermons For Lent/Easter
When Jesus leaves earth, in the Ascension, he advises that we stay in the city. We don't know everything we are going to know yet. We are not yet clothed with "power from on high." We will be. But we're not there yet. Jesus' advice in the meantime, or mid-time, between his leaving and his return, is that we stay where we are.
He is talking out of a rich sense of time. It is not the kind of advancing, clock-type time in which you and I live. He is talking about eternity and the way his incarnation in time has happened and will happen again.