This post is for my family. As for my friends who like to occasionally see what we're up to, I blog over at www.barefootbiblestudy.com more frequently these days.
It's been a year for us since Grandpa "JR" went to be with Jesus. I was able to get the video from his memorial service uploaded. I hope you enjoy it. I wrote a few posts on my other blog which were in many ways inspired by him.
Grandpa introduced me to the love of reading, and subsequently, a love for writing. He always brought me books when he returned home from his travels. I learned so many wonderful things from him.
A compilation of thoughts on the reality, the hope and the joy of Heaven from C.S. Lewis, Jonathan Edwards, and Sam Storms.
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.” (C.S. Lewis)
“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to Heaven to fully enjoy God is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers or mothers, husbands or wives or children or the company of earthly friends are but shadows. God is the substance. These are but scattered beams—God is the sun. These are but streams—God is the ocean. (Jonathan Edwards)
The grace of God is endlessly infinite and endlessly complex and endlessly deep and endlessly new and endlessly fresh and endlessly profound. God is infinite!
So too are His attributes. How then could we ever think there could ever come a terminus or an end or a consummation to the revelation of who He is? And with that unending and ever increasing display will come an unending and ever increasing discovery on our part of the depths and greatness of God’s grace.
We will learn and grasp and comprehend more of the height and the width and the depth and breadth of God’s saving love. We will see ever new and always fresh displays and manifestations of His kindness that we can’t even begin to conceive today. We will constantly be more amazed with God, more in love with God, and thus evermore relishing His presence and our relationship with Him. Our experience of God in Heaven will never reach its consummation.
We will never finally arrive…our experience with God will never become stale, it will deepen and develop and intensify and amplify and unfold and increase and broaden and balloon.
Our relishing and rejoicing in God will sharpen and spread and extend and progress and mature and flower and blossom and widen and stretch and swell and snowball and inflate and lengthen and augment and advance and proliferate and accumulate and accelerate forever.”
(Other than C.S. Lewis, quotes from "Joy's Eternal Increase: Edwards on the Beauty of Heaven" by Sam Storms)
(Other than C.S. Lewis, quotes from "Joy's Eternal Increase: Edwards on the Beauty of Heaven" by Sam Storms)
