Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
willing--literally, "well content." Translate also, "To go (literally, migrate) from our home in the body, and to come to our home with the Lord." We should prefer to be found alive at the Lord's coming, and to be clothed upon with our heavenly body (2 Corinthians 5:2-4). But feeling, as we do, the sojourn in the body to be a separation from our true home "with the Lord," we prefer even dissolution by death, so that in the intermediate disembodied state we may go to be "with the Lord" (Philippians 1:23). "To be with Christ" (the disembodied state) is distinguished from Christ's coming to take us to be with Him in soul and body (1 Thessalonians 4:14-17, "with the Lord"). Perhaps the disembodied spirits of believers have fulness of communion with Christ unseen; but not the mutual recognition of one another, until clothed with their visible bodies at the resurrection (compare 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17), when they shall with joy recognize Christ's image in each other perfect.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 7:7
2 Corinthians 6:17
1 Thessalonians 4:13
1 Thessalonians 4:15
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