The glorious presence of God that the saints shall have of God in heaven is a great part of their happiness Heaven would not be heaven without the presence of God. The presence of God in the most miserable place possible would be a greater happiness […]
Do you desire God? Stir up and enlarge your desires Let those narrow hearts open their mouths wide. Say with the psalmist, “This one thing I desire; nothing but God, nothing but grace. Take corn and wine who will, take the gold and the silver who […]
Life is the Porch of Eternity Here the believer dresses himself that he may be fit to enter in with the Bridegroom. We cannot say of a wicked man that life is his Though he lives, yet life is not his; he is dead while he […]
A sound belief in things unseen will cause practical estimation of them, and that above all earthly things. A glimpse of the heavenly glory as in a glass will cause the soul deliberately to say, “This is the chief desirable felicity; this is the crown, the […]
There is yet a redemption to come, which is called the redemption of our body (Rom 8:23). Of this redemption we have both the deposit and the seal, to wit, the Spirit of God (Eph 1:14, 4:30). And because the time to it is long, therefore […]