Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

If God did not dwell with the saints in the New Jerusalem, they would not be blessed even in that beautiful heavenly city. This city, with its heavenly splendor and fountains of joy, would be a lonely, bleak house of sorrow. But God will dwell with His saints as a dear Father in the midst of his children, and this make their condition perfectly blessed. -- C. F. W. Walther, *God Grant It!* p. 310