“If God gives His people such joy in this life, oh! then, what glorious joy will He give them in heaven! ‘Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord,’ (Matt. 25:21)
Here joy begins to enter into us. There we shall enter into joy.
God keeps His best wine till last. What joy when the soul shall forever bathe itself in the pure and pleasant fountain of God’s love? What joy to see the brightness of Christ’s face?
Oh! If a cluster of grapes here be so sweet, what will the full vintage be?
How may this set us all a longing for that place where sorrow cannot live, and where joy cannot die!”
–Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity Contained in Sermons Upon the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1692/1970), 272-273.
