^{HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div}

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:12

All men feel that earth and heaven touch at the horizons of the distant past and future, but we ought to feel that the present moment of time and this bit of the world’s surface are linked with heaven. This is what the ladder meant for Jacob. The moorland waste, where he lay, and Laban’s home, whither he journeyed, were as near God as his father’s tent. Earth is linked with heaven:- and so we are also linked with heaven through the death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

By God’s daily Providence.

His loving eye is ever upon us, His ears always open to our cry, and His angels go to and fro on our world performing ceaseless ministries. Oh, brethren we are under surveillance by a host of heavenly angels that record all our activities and then report to our Father in Heaven. Therefore, we are to be minded of our actions and our words.

By our Saviour’ s mediation. 

As, He intimated to Nathanael, His own nature as uniting God with man, and especially His Ascension glory as of the man Christ Jesus, is the one great connecting link. “Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” It happened and soon the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise first and those that remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the clouds of the sky. Let us be ready and prepared for the great movement.

By daily fellowship and holy thought. 

We should practice the sense of God’s presence, often stopping ourselves amid our ordinary avocations and interests to say, aloud when possible,’ God is near, God is here.” In all likelihood, we are daily living amid the glories of the eternal world, but our eyes are blinded. Oh, that by humility and purity we may become more sensitive, and awake to the things that are unseen and eternal! Lord, open our eyes, that we may see! (2 Kings 6:17).

By holy yearning. 

When Jesus ascended, He unrolled a path behind Him, along which we shall one day travel to meet Him. Hope treads that glorious Ascension ladder; and as she does so, again we see the heaven opened, and our destiny unfolded at Christ’s right hand. Remember brethren we are kings and priests unto the Lord. Let us live the way that God wants us to in these last days.