" So shall we ever be with the Lord"1 Thess,4:17
 
While we are here the Lord is with us,and we are called away we are with Him.There is no dividing the saint from His Saviour.They are one,and they aways must be one:Jesus cannot be without His own people,for He would be a Head without body.Whether caught up into the air,or resting in Paradise,or sojourning here,we are with Jesus;and who shall seperate us from Him?
 
What a joy is this.Our supreme honour,rest,comfort,delight is to be with the Lord.We cannot conceive of anything which can surpass or even equal this
divine society.By holy fellowship we must be with Him in His humiliation,rejection,and travail,and then we shall be with Him in His Glory.Before long we shall be with Him in His rest and in His Royalty,in His expectation and in His manifestation.We shall fare as He fares,and triumph as He triumphs.
 
O my Lord,if I am to be for ever with thee,I have a destiny incomparable.I will not envy an archangel.To be forever with the Lord is my idea of Heaven at its best.Not the harps of gold,not the crown unfading,nor the light unclouded ,is Glory to me;but Jesus ,Jesus Himself,and myself foever with Him in nearest and dearest fellowship.