From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
November 28 "So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was
received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." Mark 16:19 The right hand of God means the right hand of power, of
dominion, of authority, and of acceptance. When our blessed Lord went back
to the courts of bliss, and the gates of heaven lifted up their heads, and
the everlasting doors were lifted up, and the King of glory went in, he sat
down at once at the right hand of the Majesty on high. But what did this
place of pre-eminence imply? It certified to principalities and powers, and
the whole bright and glorious throng of angelic hosts, that God had accepted
his work and given him for his reward that exalted place of power, of honor,
and of dignity. For remember this, that our gracious Lord went up to heaven
and sat down at the right hand of God in his human nature. He did not go up
to heaven as he came down from heaven only as the Son of God. He went up to
heaven as the Son of man as well as the Son of God. He went up to heaven in
a human nature united to the divine, and therefore entered the courts of
bliss as the God-man, Immanuel, God with us. It is a point of great importance, and to be ever borne
in mind by every spiritual worshiper, and by every true believer in the Son
of God, that our blessed Lord sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on
high in the same human body which he wore upon earth--glorified indeed
beyond all thought or utterance, but the same pure, spotless, holy, and
immortal humanity which he assumed in the womb of the Virgin, and which he
offered as a sacrifice upon the cross. To this point the Apostle would
specially direct our thoughts, and bring it before us as the object and food
of our faith (Rom. 8:34). And what an object of faith it is, for, as viewing
Jesus at the right hand of God, we see there a mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus; we see an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous; we see a brother, a friend, a husband enthroned in glory, there
ever living, ever reigning, ever ruling, until God shall have put all
enemies under his feet.