2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as
we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say,
and would prefer to be away from the body and at home
with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him,
whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for
the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:6-10

The Expectation of Eternal Life with Christ

A little girl whose father had just died asked her mother where he had
gone. "To be with Jesus," replied her mother.

A few days later, talking to a friend, the mother said, "I am so
grieved to have lost my husband."

The little girl heard her and, remembering the earlier conversation,
asked, "Mother, is a thing lost when you know where it is?"

"No, of course not," said her mother.

"Well then, how can Daddy be lost when he has gone to be with Jesus?"

The little girl had hit the nail on the head. To say that at death a
Christian "goes to be with Jesus" is not a euphemism but a reality.