Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you.
Luke 15, The Message Translation
Jesus is the presence of promise in our world and the ascension through the power of resurrection means that we now share the same calling as Jesus, seeing in His light and with His eyes. This means that we as Christian believers are “in heaven.” In the middle of the world’s life we are given the same share in God’s perspective on things, so that God through us many make His loving faithfulness real and effective here and now. Further, the things and persons of this world are seen in a new way . . . as charged with hope, with a future of glory and of healing. They are seen as if already part of the new heaven and the new earth in which God’s purposes have been brought to completion.
