Although Joseph was used dramatically and powerfully as a witness, as a king, and as a deliverer, he never forgot that he is the eternal servant of the God of Israel. Therefore he gave careful instructions that his bones were to be carried out of Egypt and brought into the place where the Glory of God was abiding.

When we are being greatly used of the Lord it is easy to forget the Lord. Each of God's saints must understand no matter how spectacularly the Lord may use him, no matter how he may rule and deliver the peoples of the earth, none of this is of any consequence compared with his eternal relationship to God as His servant and son. Our relationship to God and to people is all that really matters in life.

After the thousand-year period is over, we who have overcome through the distressing years of life on the earth and through the battles of the Kingdom Age will have the incredible privilege of beholding the Face of God (Revelation 22:4). Moses' face was transfigured as a result of beholding the God of Israel.

One day some school children were asked what they thought we would be like after we had seen God's Face for a billion years.

A little girl gave the answer in one word: "God."

Our life in the present world is almost exclusively a time of preparation. If we make our life on the earth the focus of our ambitions and joys, we will have made the greatest mistake possible for a human being to make.

We are being prepared to serve God forever.

Our life now is as a fetus in the womb, and our level of development during the thousand-year reign will be that of spiritual children.

Our actual life as God's sons will begin with the new heaven and earth reign of Christ. We shall grow and develop in the Lord throughout the endless eons of eternity.

We have been predestined to be in the image of Christ. We are His brothers. All that God has spoken shall come to pass—perfectly. (from Witnesses; Kings; Deliverers; Servants)