Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God. If you look up to the top of the mountain you will see the rock wall of the overlook. There are actually people up there but they are dwarfed by the size of the mountain. After Jesus has spent 40 days with his disciples after his resurrection, the scripture tells us that he blessed them while he was carried up into heaven. The disciples looked up.
We don’t really know if heaven is “up.” In our modern age we have seen the vastness of outer space. While we don’t know where heaven is, we do know in a spiritual sense that it is “up.” We serve a God greater than our knowledge of space. Our God is always higher than our circumstances and understanding. We can always look up to him. The Lord Jesus, who the disciples had followed on earth, was no longer going to be with them in a physical way. But they weren’t sad. They worshiped him and were filled with great joy for he had blessed them. Prayer O Great and Mighty God We bow before you in gratitude and look up to you. Help us to keep our focus on you and not on ourselves so that we can be filled with the joy you promised. Amen
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