John 14:2-3

John 14:2-3. I ye to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you, unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Jesus often keeps this promise in many senses. By his gracious spirit, he has come again, by his divine presence in the means of grace, he often comes again. By-and-by, if we die, he will come again to meet us; and if we do not die, then will the promise be fulfilled to the greatest possible extent, for Jesus will come again, and receive in his own proper person those who are alive and remain unto his coming. Anyhow, "I will come again, and receive you unto myself," remains one of the sweetest promises that was ever given to believers by the Lord Jesus Christ. He did not say, "I will receive you to heaven;" he promised something far better than that: "I will receive you unto myself." Oh, what bliss it will be to get to Christ, to be with him for ever and ever!