The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.