With Jesus!

Spurgeon tells the story of a dying boy, who, when asked why he felt so happy in the thought of going to Heaven answered the following:


“I want to go to Heaven principally because Jesus is there.” “Well,” they said, “but do you always want to be with Jesus, then, and with nobody else?” “Yes,” he said, “I only care to be where Jesus is. “But suppose Jesus were to leave Heaven?” He said, “I would go with Him.” “But suppose Jesus went to Hell, what then?” “Ah,” said the boy, “but there could not be any Hell where Jesus was! I would go with Jesus wherever He might go.” Oh, that we had that kind of spirit and that desire not to be self-seeking, nor world-seeking, nor getting our joy out of common pleasures, nor hunting after comfort where it cannot be found in these low-land joys—but let us seek to be on the wing with our Master, up aloft, dwelling in the land of communion where Jesus lets out His very heart to His people and reveals Himself to them as He does not unto the world! The Lord give to this Church many of those favored men and women, whose communion shall be with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ. Oh, it is the happiest, holiest, safest, richest, most useful kind of life! God grant it to you!

Spurgeon, Following Christ