Not a fragment of nature remains in the place you are in, in Christ. All your connections are new with God. There is a walk that becomes this place. If I know the heart of God toward me, am I walking as a child with Him?
Are you ready to go at once straight into heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to say it f Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping to-night at once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house?
Paul said, " I cannot take a step without the sentence of death rolling through everything."
It was a strange thing, the only-begotten Son of God coming into the world as a babe. All in -heaven would be saying, "Why, what palace can be good enough for Him?" And man saying, " Turn a crib in which the oxen have been feeding upside down, and that will be good enough for Him."