He Will Take Us Up

Eucharistic Meditation | Lord's Day—June 1, AD 2025

Today we remember that after His resurrection, Christ bodily ascended into heaven in the presence of His disciples, and is now seated with all authority and power at the right hand of God the Father.

Jesus prepared the disciples for this event, instructing them regarding His eventual absence while in the Upper Room where this New Covenant sacrament was first instituted. He encouraged them saying, “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (Jn. 14:1–3).

One of the great benefits of Christ’s ascension is that because we are united to Him, we can have confidence that where He is, we too will one day be. As the Heidelberg Catechism teaches, “We have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, as the Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself” (Q/A 49). Christ has taken on our flesh, and we have been united to His as members of His body. And so quite simply, where the Head goes, the Body must follow.

The Lord’s Supper is a reminder of this promise. Jesus has left us in a very real sense – His physical body is located in heaven. But although He has gone away, the Spirit brings Him near. And in this sacrament of bread and wine, we truly partake of His body and blood. Each week Christ is given to us at this Table, and we are commanded to do this until He comes again, until He brings us to that place which He has prepared.

So come, and welcome, to Jesus Christ.