The Love before which all other loves pale. The peace of a pure heart will be my gift to you. The freedom lost to oppression will dance in your heart. The child snatched by disease will run to your arms. I will replay the symphonies unheard by deaf ears and the sunsets unseen by blind eyes. I will restore your years drooped on crutches and trapped in wheelchairs. Finally, to gaze in the face of your Father. When it comes to describing heaven, we are all happy failures.
All the lessons preached, poems written, and chapters drafted. And then smile as the Father reminds you, No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.Īnything you imagine is inadequate. Whatever heaven means to you, imagine it. Will a perfect world have love? If so, ponder a place where love has no bounds. Does a perfect world imply joy? Then create your highest happiness.
Does that mean peace? Then envision absolute tranquility. At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity. What a breathtaking verse! Do you see what it says? Heaven is beyond our imagination. Not in the creature, nor in any creature enjoyment, nor in their riches, nor in their righteousness, nor in their own hearts, nor in any carnal privileges: only in the Lord, as exhorted to in the next verse ( Isaiah 26:4 ) in the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, that is, in Christ.“No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” - 1 Corinthians 2 : 9
Or "fixed" on the love of God, rooted and grounded in that, and firmly persuaded of interest in it, and that nothing can separate from it on the covenant and promises of God, which are firm and sure and on the faithfulness and power of God to make them good, and perform them and on Christ the Son of God, and Saviour of men upon him as a Saviour, laying the whole stress of their salvation on him upon his righteousness, for their justification upon his blood and sacrifice, for atonement, pardon, and cleansing on his fulness, for the supply of their wants on his person, for their acceptance with God and on his power, for their protection and preservation see ( Isaiah 10:20 ) ( 50:10 ) ( Psalms 112:7 Psalms 112:8 ) : because he trusteth in thee Peace with God in Christ through his blood, in a way of believing, and as the fruit and effect of his righteousness being received by faith this is not always felt, received, and enjoyed in the soul yet the foundation of it always is, and is perfect and besides, this peace is true, real, and solid in which sense the word "perfect" is used, in opposition to a false and imaginary one and it will end in perfect peace in heaven: moreover, the word "perfect" is not in the Hebrew text, it is there "peace, peace" which is doubled to denote the certainty of it, the enjoyment of it, and the constancy and continuance of it and as expressive of all sorts of peace, which God grants unto his people, and keeps for them, and them in as peace with God and peace with men, peace outward and peace inward, peace here and peace hereafter and particularly it denotes the abundance of peace that believers will have in the kingdom of Christ in the latter day see ( Psalms 72:7 ) ( Isaiah 9:7 ) : mind stayed
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