That sight of him is mercifully hidden from us now, for by our sins – by all the un-Christlike things we have thought and said and done – we have turned against him and have knowingly embraced evil. We have no merit of our own which could ever entitle us to approach him whose sanctity is a flame of fire. With our will at all times ready to rebel, it is impossible for us to claim as by right a place before him as his true sons and daughters.

And yet in that life of fellowship with him lies the only happiness that the Universe in the end has to offer.