An Everlasting Covenant

Believers are married to the King of Heaven, and all that is in God is theirs. A philosopher comforted himself with this, that though he had no music or vine trees, yet he had the household gods with him. So we, though we have not the vine or fig tree, yet if God be ours and we are his, this creates joy in the most impoverished condition. And that which may raise the comfort of the godly higher, and cause a jubilation of spirit, is that  shortly God will  own his people before all the world, and say, "These are mine." At present the elect are not known: 'It doth not yet appear what we shall be' (1 John 3:2). The saints are like kings in disguise; but how will their hearts leap for joy when God shall pronounce that word, "These are mine; the lot of free grace is fallen upon them; these shall lie forever in the bosom of my love!"
—Thomas Watson