Ascension

 There is a lot of Christian art work and a writing in the New Testament of the Bible, that Jesus ascended into heaven on a cloud.  Well, I don’t doubt that, I notice that two of the people who saw Jesus ascend, wrote Gospels, and neither of them thought it all that important to put this scene in.  John and Matthew wrote two of the four Gospels.  Why skip Ascension?  They both believed, as I do, that Jesus is God in the flesh, Risen from the dead.  What John and Matthew focus on is what we are supposed to do who say we believe this to be true?  A lot of the Baptized, believe in the Creed of Ascension, but they do not follow Jesus’ teaching.  My reading of the bible indicates that God has not much use for those who fail to follow Jesus. I do this at times, and repentance is my eventual response.  But some think they are just fine doing their version of “follow me.”  It is a bit like an addict believe that the recovery literature is correct, but then doing it their own way.  It never really works.