“For our citizenship is in heaven…”  Philippians 3:20

Christ Jesus is our access, the door, as we saw listed in the list of ‘I am’s of Christ.
From the list of I will’s of Christ:
“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”  John 6:40

In Jesus ‘high priestly prayer’ John 17: 24 He prays:
“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see (behold) My glory that you have given Me because you loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

The word behold in this verse is ‘theoreo’ and Vine’s Complete Expository 
Dictionary defines it: “of one who looks at a thing with interest and for a purpose, usually indicating the careful observation of details.”

John 17:21-22 Jesus prays,
“that they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in Me  and I in you, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that you sent Me. The glory that you have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.”

Concerning the saints (believers) glorified:
“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.  He who has ears, let him hear.”  Matthew 13:43

“And if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.”  Romans 8:17

“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself.”
Philippians 3:20-21

“When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”  Colossians 3:4
Here is the mystery that God made known to the gentiles,
“…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”  Colossians 1:27

We are always in His presence!  Is He always in ours?  Do we ponder the things that are happening in the world around us in the presence of Almighty God?  They fade when we have a ‘single eye’ focus on Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit who leads, guides and teaches.

Therefore, in the Holy Spirit, kingdom living is ours now.

Doesn’t that make you want to sing out?
  “Break forth into joy oh my soul,
   Break forth into joy oh my soul!
   In the presence of the Lord there is joy forever more;
   Break forth, break forth, into joy oh my soul.”

Now to Him be majesty and glory forever.  Amen