Ralph Erskine shares

'Look to Christ, not only to give you all, but to be your all; for he is not only the way to life, but the life itself: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." "As I desire," says one, "never to be happy, if Christ be not able to bring me to happiness, so I desire no greater, no better happiness, than what Christ is, and can be to me." O sirs, he is all, and there is all in him; all to justify, all to sanctify, all to glorify, all to fill and satisfy, all to delight and solace the largest faculties of the immortal soul; "in his presence there is fullness of joy." The highest happiness here is, "Christ in us the hope of glory" and the highest happiness hereafter is Christ, even to be for ever with the Lord. The thief on the cross had this preached to him, "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." To be in Paradise is not happiness; to be with angels there is not happiness; but to be with Christ there, this is heaven and happiness.'

We do not serve Christ to get more and more of His blessings; we serve Christ to get closer and closer to Him - He is our peace. With Christ, Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans, God will then give us everything else that we need in this life. Rom. 8:32

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