Jesus said, "I lay down My life, that I might take it again" (John 10:17). We know He has taken it again, and He is now in heaven—the same Person in a glorified body—and if we delight to think of Him as He was, it should be also our delight to think of Him as He is.
"Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more" (2 Cor. 5:16). We are to know Him now in the heavenly position that He has taken for us; we are to have the conscious knowledge of Him there, for in Christianity the believer is connected with Christ in glory (1 Cor. 6:17; 12:12, 13).