What [are] you looking at?

Have you ever observed an argument at the dining room table because one sibling was staring at the other? It goes something like this; “Stop staring at me!” or “What you looking at?”. It should be obvious what the other sibling is looking at.

Jesus’ disciples were asked the same question.

Jesus had spent 40 days after His resurrection speaking to His disciples about the kingdom of God. He also spoke to them about the Kingdom on many occasions prior to his crucifixion. They had become Kingdom minded to the point they thought Jesus physical Kingdom would appear on Earth any day.

“Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them…who also said…”why stand gazing up into heaven.”

Basically they asked, “What you looking at?”.

You would think it would be obvious what they were looking at. The King had left the building. The One who was to establish His Earthly Kingdom…gone.

I think we should ask ourselves, ‘What are we looking at?’. What has our attention?

Jesus had already attempted to re-direct His disciples attention once before. They had asked about the establishment of Jesus’ kingdom and He answered them by re-focusing their attention to the work at hand…that of being His witnesses (Acts 1:8).

In John 4 Jesus spoke to His disciples about the immediacy of the Harvest.

“…Four months between planting and harvest…wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest”. – Jesus

The Lord spoke to my heart a couple of years ago and I’m sure its still true today:

“There are people you know that don’t know me.”

This is true for all of us. And Jesus’ instructions to His disciples in John 4 are for us today: “Wake up and look around…”