“So shall we ever be with the Lord”
1 Thessalonians 4:17
NEAREST AND DEAREST FELLOWSHIP
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 for ever with thee, I
have a destiny incomparable. I will not envy an
archangel. To be for ever 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 for ever with Him in nearest and dearest
fellowship.
"Lord
Dictated Them"
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