What were heaven without God and Jesus? Who would care to be in heaven without Him? God, Christ, is our heaven. Heaven would not be heaven if we did not have God, Christ, in heaven. What is a hell when the soul does not possess Christ, when one is not certain of His love. But now we are blessed everywhere and enjoy a heaven full of delight and happiness; He being near us, we possess Him both here and beyond. Who should not desire in faith, hope and love to possess Him, and to be in Him? "He who has himself only," as someone has said, "has nothing. He who should have the whole world, and nothing but the world, would yet have nothing. The world consists only of ciphers; the numbers are those only in whom God dwells."

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