How sweet is the meditation on the word together found in the sacred pages of Scripture, and revealed by the Holy Spirit to our hearts.
The Apostle Paul reminds us in the Epistle to the Ephesians of this "togetherness." We are "quickened...together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ.”
Thus we are "fitly framed together" and grow "unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." Eph. 2:5, 6, 21, 22.
In addition to being "a holy temple in the Lord" we are also "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together." Rom. 8:17.
There is a beautiful, prophetic promise in Psa. 50:5, "Gather My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." Furthermore, our Lord's sweet promise is: "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there an 1 in the midst of them." Matt. 18:20. Our risen Lord is the object of our worship the center of our gathering and the great Master Builder. Through His sacrificial death and resurrection He will gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. (John 11:52.)
So we wait for His glorious appearing and the reunion of loved ones gone before when we shall be "caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:17. See also Eph. 1:10.
In the light of these precious promises, what a joy it is to be workers together with the Lord, and we are reminded in John 4:36, "Both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”
"Ye also helping together by prayer for us" ( 2 Cor. 1:11) so that our "hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love." Col. 2:2. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Psa. 133:1. H. Spence