In his now-classic book, Knowing God, he wrote, “What will make heaven to be heaven is the presence of Jesus, and of a reconciled divine Father who loves us for Jesus’s sake no less than he loves Jesus himself. He celebrated all the English Puritans for this reason, it seems, but especially Richard Baxter, the most heavenly minded Puritan of all. Lewis because he said they were especially clear about heaven, clear because heaven had remarkably gripped their hearts. Packer loved to read John Bunyan and C.S. Packer entered into his eternal reward five days shy of his 94th birthday. The most heavenly minded man I’ve ever met passed into eternal glory Friday morning.
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