When the time comes for the believer to die, there is such a welcome from those believers who knew them and have gone before them. What it must be like, we cannot really imagine. To have all tears wiped away, all grief gone, to feel somehow one's tendency to sin just drop away, and to feel that God has changed us and we are now sinless and filled with love for God. We can take in all the truth of God and we can understand what life has been about. There have been times in our lives when we felt happy beyond words to describe, and that is what God’s people will experience many times over. We will be able to see the angels, and all the people of God, and we will see Christ the Lord. We'll see the majesty in his look, and all the compassion and love in his countenance.
But the Christian message is not only about what happens after death, as if we can put that turning to Christ till then. When we turn to the Lord, we receive blessings even now. We know the promises of God and the guidance of God and the goodness of God, and we learn to pray and we have continual answers to our prayers. There isn't a single believer in this world who has been truly converted, who would ever go back to a pre-converted state. There is one thing that would horrify them and it is the idea that it is possible for them to lose their blessings and go back to what they were before. But thank God it is not possible, because the Lord Jesus Christ has said this of everybody that comes to him: ‘None shall pluck them out of my hand.’ They will be eternally safe.