How We Can Have Hope After Death

"You can make three wishes," goes the old story of the genie and his jug.  If you could fulfill three desires, what would they be?  Fame, fortune, and power?  Or what?  When he wrote to friends at Philippi, a colony in northern Greece where he had established a church, Paul told them he had three desires, much different ones from those which I suspect we would have written about.  First, he said that he wanted to know Christ in a meaningful and completely fulfilling relationship.  He then added that he also wanted to know the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.