Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

cannot describe what kind of place paradise is because I cannot understand the condition of a soul separate from the body. I ask no clearer view of paradise than this – that Christ is there. All other things in the picture that our imagination draws of the state between death and resurrection are nothing in comparison to this. How He is there and in what way He is there, I do not know. Let me only see Christ in paradise when my eyes close in death, and that is enough for me.