Seeing Jesus

CS Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Letter 15

“The humans live in time but [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned with eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present–either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure. “

Here and now. We meet Jesus in the here and the now. Yesterday is memories. Tomorrow is a set of plans, fears and hopes that may not even happen. Here and now is where I meet Jesus, where I see Him, where I wait for Him, where I praise Him, where I pray to Him.

Acts 10:33. So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."

What better place to be than to be "here present before God"?