Monday, February 19, 2018
Unending Glory
If God’s glory and our joy in him are one, and yet we are not infinite as he is, then our union with him in the allsatisfying experience of his glory can never be complete, but must be increasing with intimacy and intensity forever and ever.
The perfection of heaven is not static.
Nor do we see at once all there is to see—for that would be a limit on God’s glorious self-revelation, and therefore, his love.
Yet we do not become God. Therefore, there will always be more, and the end of increased pleasure in God will never come.
“I suppose it will not be
denied by any, that God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with
eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by
the bestowment of a good [which is] infinitely valuable, because
eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be
said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually
bestowed.” - Edwards, from Piper.