The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the
great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by
redemption.
He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which
Christ purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the
portion of their souls.
God is their wealth and treasure, their food,
their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their
everlasting honor and glory.
They have none in heaven but God; he is the
great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they
are to rise to at the end of the world.
The Lord God, he is the light of
the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the ‘river of the water of life’ that
runs, and the tree of life that grows, ‘in the midst of the paradise of
God’.
The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will
forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be
their everlasting feast.
The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things;
they will enjoy the angels, and will enjoy one another: but that which
they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other, or in anything else
whatsoever, that will yield them delight and happiness, will be what
will be seen of God in them.
- Jonathan Edwards -
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