Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith

December 17
Nearest And Dearest Fellowship

So shall we ever be with the Lord - 1 Thessalonians 4:17

While we are here the Lord is with us, and when we are called away we are with Him. There is  no dividing the saint from His Savior. They are one, and they always must be one: Jesus cannot be  without His own people, for He would be a Head without a body. Whether caught up into the air,  or resting in paradise, or sojourning here, we are with Jesus; and who shall separate us from  Him?

What a joy is this! Our supreme honor, 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 forever 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, nor  the crowns unfading, nor the light unclouded is glory to me; but Jesus, Jesus Himself, and myself  forever with Him in nearest and dearest fellowship.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon