A Reservation in Heaven

If you are in Christ, it is impossible for anyone to take away your seat at the banquet table in heaven. Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us that Christ has reserved a place for each of His people in His Father’s house.

My wife and I, since the kids have grown up and gotten married and so on, we spend a lot of time eating dinner out. In fact, I say sometimes facetiously of my wife, the thing that she likes to make the most for dinner is reservations. She knows how to make reservations, and so we go into various places. And of course, in Orlando, particularly during the tourist season, most of the restaurants require a reservation or there are long lines—forty-five minutes, an hour, an hour and a half wait. I don’t like to do that when I’m hungry, and so I take comfort when I know that we have reservations.

But beloved, it’s one thing to have reservations for dinner. It’s another thing to have a reservation in heaven. There is a reservation for each of God’s people that has been made by Christ in His Father’s house, and no one can take away that reservation. The reservation itself will be kept for the time that we get there, and we will be kept as well by the Father to make sure that we won’t miss that banquet feast with our Savior.