If you find Christ, this glorious star, this excellent heavenly jewel, will be yours. He will be your own, your Savior, your Lord, your portion. Then may you say, as in Canticles 2:16, “My beloved is mine, and I am his.” O how rich and happy will you be then!
What will all the riches of kings be in comparison of yours? If you find this, what can you desire more? Would you desire a better treasure than the most precious jewel to be found anywhere, not only in this lower world but in the highest heavens itself?
Would you desire to find a better treasure than the best and choicest jewel, that the King of kings himself possesses?
If this star arises in your heart, it will bring day along with it. The day will dawn when the day star arises. The night, by degrees, will vanish away till, at length, perfect day begins. And this light will be to you an everlasting light.
If once this star rises, it will never set any more; and the joy and comfort that you have in its beams never will finally cease. And though it may sometimes go into a cloud in this world, yet it will break out again.
And the time will soon come when all clouds and darkness shall be totally done away, and then this excellent light shall shine with perfect brightness upon your soul to all eternity without any interruption.
1739 Sermon
http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9nZXRvYmplY3QucGw/Yy4yMTozNToyOjA6MTYud2plby44MjY2OTYuODI2NzA0
What will all the riches of kings be in comparison of yours? If you find this, what can you desire more? Would you desire a better treasure than the most precious jewel to be found anywhere, not only in this lower world but in the highest heavens itself?
Would you desire to find a better treasure than the best and choicest jewel, that the King of kings himself possesses?
If this star arises in your heart, it will bring day along with it. The day will dawn when the day star arises. The night, by degrees, will vanish away till, at length, perfect day begins. And this light will be to you an everlasting light.
If once this star rises, it will never set any more; and the joy and comfort that you have in its beams never will finally cease. And though it may sometimes go into a cloud in this world, yet it will break out again.
And the time will soon come when all clouds and darkness shall be totally done away, and then this excellent light shall shine with perfect brightness upon your soul to all eternity without any interruption.
1739 Sermon
http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9nZXRvYmplY3QucGw/Yy4yMTozNToyOjA6MTYud2plby44MjY2OTYuODI2NzA0
No comments:
Post a Comment