After Jesus gave final instructions to his disciples, it is recorded that his body lifted into the sky and disappeared into a cloud, symbolic for his ascension into pure heavenly consciousness.

His followers then returned to Jerusalem and stayed close to each other in the upper room of their meeting place, praying and listening for further direction from the Holy Spirit. As the book of Acts states, “They returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey. And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying”
Acts 1:12,13, NKJV.

The fact that they stayed in the upper room, I’ve always considered as metaphysically significant. It wasn’t just a physical location they sat their bodies. It was symbolic for a high metaphysical and spiritual place they kept their thought.

They didn’t stay in the lower room, or the cellar. They stayed in the highest place they could.

With Jesus gone, they could have felt loss, lack and despondency about their future. After all, Jesus, their master, their guide, their constant companion who kept them out of trouble, protected them at every step and loved them beyond anything they had ever known before, was no longer there. The human mind could have craved for his physical presence once again. But they didn’t do that. They didn’t allow their thinking to descend into “lower room,” or even “cellar” thinking. They headed for the Upper Room of knowing that Jesus Christ was still alive and well in Spirit. And they were rewarded when the Holy Spirit descended on their thought in full-fledged power and strength, and motivated and inspired them to greater works than ever.

We can do the same whenever we’re tempted to feel loss or lack with the parting of a loved one or of some treasured experience in our life. As the disciples chose to head for the Upper Room, we can choose to go to the Upper Room understanding of Life in Spirit and endless possibility of good with God.

Life is eternal. It never ends. All true good is eternal, and it never ends. It is not in matter to be lost, but forever in Spirit to be enjoyed and experienced to the fullest.

If tempted by a picture of loss, Upper Room thinking allows for the Holy Spirit of divine Love to descend upon thought and take all sense of loss away. God’s good is always present. Upper Room perspective keeps our thought out of lower room places.

Choose to stay in the Upper Room today, and enjoy.