The world is selfish. The flesh, the passions, the desires of the mind, seek their own gratification. But, if I walk in the light, self has no place there. I can enjoy the light and all I see in it with another, and there is no jealousy. If another possess a carnal thing, I do not have it. In the light, we have fellow-possession of that which God gives, and we enjoy it the more by enjoying it together.
If our souls go on with God, sweet is the assurance that we are washed in the blood of Christ and belong to God, yet the uppermost thought, in the long run, will be Himself. We shall come back to His person. With it we shall in our praises weave what He has done, suffered and won for us, but the first of all thoughts in our souls is, and the first of all thoughts in heaven is, not what we have gained, but what He has been for us and what He is to us, yea what He is in Himself.
Bible Treasury, Vol. 78