# “Here joy begins to enter into us but there we shall enter into joy” by Thomas Watson

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- Published: 2020-07-08T12:00:38-05:00
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“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_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851511449?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1692/1970), 272-273.

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