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Heaven, a World of Love
According to Jonathan Edwards, heaven will be a world of holy love. God himself is the source of this love, and in heaven he will impart it perfectly to all his people. Edwards unfolds the nature, expression, effects, and enjoyment of this best of all the gifts God ever bestows on those who believe. From Jonathan Edwards' 'Charity and Its Fruits'
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Jonathan Edwards was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time, and a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s.
The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. He received his Masters three years later. As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. However, in 1721 he came to what he called a "delightful conviction" though meditation on 1 Timothy 1:17. From that point on, Edwards delighted in the sovereignty of God. Edwards later recognized this as his conversion to Christ.
In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. He was a student minister, not a visiting pastor, his rule being thirteen hours of study a day. In the same year, he married Sarah Pierpont, then age seventeen, daughter of Yale founder James Pierpont (1659–1714). In total, Jonathan and Sarah had eleven children.
Stoddard died on February 11th, 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony. Throughout his time in Northampton his preaching brought remarkable religious revivals.
Yet, tensions flamed as Edwards would not continue his grandfather's practice of open communion. Stoddard believed that communion was a "converting ordinance." Surrounding congregations had been convinced of this, and as Edwards became more convinced that this was harmful, his public disagreement with the idea caused his dismissal in 1750.
Edwards then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).
Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758. He was a popular choice, for he had been a friend of the College since its inception. He died of fever at the age of fifty-four following experimental inoculation for smallpox and was buried in the President's Lot in the Princeton cemetery beside his son-in-law, Aaron Burr.
Jonathan Edwards was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time, and a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s.
The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. He received his Masters three years later. As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. However, in 1721 he came to what he called a "delightful conviction" though meditation on 1 Timothy 1:17. From that point on, Edwards delighted in the sovereignty of God. Edwards later recognized this as his conversion to Christ.
In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. He was a student minister, not a visiting pastor, his rule being thirteen hours of study a day. In the same year, he married Sarah Pierpont, then age seventeen, daughter of Yale founder James Pierpont (1659–1714). In total, Jonathan and Sarah had eleven children.
Stoddard died on February 11th, 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony. Throughout his time in Northampton his preaching brought remarkable religious revivals.
Yet, tensions flamed as Edwards would not continue his grandfather's practice of open communion. Stoddard believed that communion was a "converting ordinance." Surrounding congregations had been convinced of this, and as Edwards became more convinced that this was harmful, his public disagreement with the idea caused his dismissal in 1750.
Edwards then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).
Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758. He was a popular choice, for he had been a friend of the College since its inception. He died of fever at the age of fifty-four following experimental inoculation for smallpox and was buried in the President's Lot in the Princeton cemetery beside his son-in-law, Aaron Burr.
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May 9, 2021
I will buy you this book. Seriously, just ask.
This is one of the greatest and most soul enriching pieces of literature I have ever read.
I am so saddened that it has taken me 27 years to reach it. What a great heaven awaits us, and what a great privilege is ours that we can speak straight into its heavenly throne room.
This is one of the greatest and most soul enriching pieces of literature I have ever read.
I am so saddened that it has taken me 27 years to reach it. What a great heaven awaits us, and what a great privilege is ours that we can speak straight into its heavenly throne room.
May 9, 2025
Okay, Mr. Edwards 👏👏👏 Few things are more encouraging to me than contemplating the life to come with Jesus and all of the wonders it holds. Edwards goes hard for us on the perfect loveliness of that better country! If you aren’t that excited about eternity with God on a regular basis — read this book. It’s sure to stir up some affection and longing within.
January 23, 2021
Jonathan Edwards is an interesting figure. To the culture in general, he is the ultimate manifestation of the fire-and-brimstone preacher, due to the fact that his sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' is considered essential American literature. To the reformed wing of evangelicalism, due in part to the influence of John Piper, Edwards is a high-water mark of Biblical and spiritual insight, a key figure in the Great Awakening, and an all-around hero. To the academy, Edwards is the among greatest academic philosophers America has produced. To progressives, Edwards, whatever his merits, is irredeemably stained by his complicity in slavery and racism. Any honest consideration of Edwards' life must take this sombre truth fully into account. While Edwards recognized the evil of the slave trade and considered slaves as spiritual equals, he failed to confront the moral evil of slavery with fullness of conviction and purpose in his own life and ministry.
But enough about the man and onto the book. Well, it's more of a lengthy booklet made up of what I assume to be more than one sermon. If that was one sermon, it was of monstrous length, and height, and girth, and every other possible dimension. But I am not complaining. I recognize that people in Edwards' time were able to sustain focused attention far better than we can today. For example, I paused halfway through writing this brief reflection to read some articles, look at twitter, and put my baby down for a nap. But folks in the 18th century were hardier. They didn't pause, they didn't tweet, and their babies certainly didn't nap like our pathetic babies. Hold on, I need to go put on another YouTube video for my baby.
In truth I really appreciated this little book. Edwards slowly and thoroughly takes the reader through the implications of life in the heavenly state. While I don't remember his mentioning the new earth we find promised in Revelation, I took his descriptions to refer to life in that final place as well as the heavenly intermediate place to which we go when saints die in this church age. What was most helpful to me was the exploration of how the sinlessness of everyone there would change so fundamentally the dynamics of the relationships there. I knew it to be true in the abstract, but could not really imagine the experience of relationship that is entirely free from any envy, jealousy, pride, selfishness, and every other sin we inflict on one another. Edwards lingered on these realities long enough for such a thing to seem possible, and for the beauty and glory of it to impress itself on my mind and heart. That is the mark of a gifted thinker and writer: to be able to elucidate and bring to life what was previously known only in a shallow way.
Believers often struggle to understand how heavenly rewards can be reconciled to a salvation by free grace. Further, believers often feel intuitively that anything but strict equality in heaven will lead inevitably to feelings of envy and jealousy. On earth, that would obviously be the case. But Edwards argues convincingly that, freed from the inner propensity towards sin, the saints of lesser glory will rejoice in the greater glory of their betters, and the highest saints will be necessarily greater in humility, and therefore in no way tempted to pride because of their greater glory. The cynic will certainly scoff as such a notion, but those who have had tastes of truly heavenly love both within themselves and from others will be able to imagine and long for such a thing.
As for the experience of reading this book, it is still Jonathan Edwards and 18th-century English. It will require a bit of work and patience, but will be well worth it.
But enough about the man and onto the book. Well, it's more of a lengthy booklet made up of what I assume to be more than one sermon. If that was one sermon, it was of monstrous length, and height, and girth, and every other possible dimension. But I am not complaining. I recognize that people in Edwards' time were able to sustain focused attention far better than we can today. For example, I paused halfway through writing this brief reflection to read some articles, look at twitter, and put my baby down for a nap. But folks in the 18th century were hardier. They didn't pause, they didn't tweet, and their babies certainly didn't nap like our pathetic babies. Hold on, I need to go put on another YouTube video for my baby.
In truth I really appreciated this little book. Edwards slowly and thoroughly takes the reader through the implications of life in the heavenly state. While I don't remember his mentioning the new earth we find promised in Revelation, I took his descriptions to refer to life in that final place as well as the heavenly intermediate place to which we go when saints die in this church age. What was most helpful to me was the exploration of how the sinlessness of everyone there would change so fundamentally the dynamics of the relationships there. I knew it to be true in the abstract, but could not really imagine the experience of relationship that is entirely free from any envy, jealousy, pride, selfishness, and every other sin we inflict on one another. Edwards lingered on these realities long enough for such a thing to seem possible, and for the beauty and glory of it to impress itself on my mind and heart. That is the mark of a gifted thinker and writer: to be able to elucidate and bring to life what was previously known only in a shallow way.
Believers often struggle to understand how heavenly rewards can be reconciled to a salvation by free grace. Further, believers often feel intuitively that anything but strict equality in heaven will lead inevitably to feelings of envy and jealousy. On earth, that would obviously be the case. But Edwards argues convincingly that, freed from the inner propensity towards sin, the saints of lesser glory will rejoice in the greater glory of their betters, and the highest saints will be necessarily greater in humility, and therefore in no way tempted to pride because of their greater glory. The cynic will certainly scoff as such a notion, but those who have had tastes of truly heavenly love both within themselves and from others will be able to imagine and long for such a thing.
As for the experience of reading this book, it is still Jonathan Edwards and 18th-century English. It will require a bit of work and patience, but will be well worth it.
May 23, 2024
Fantastic little book on the love of God and saints in heaven. Edwards has amazing biblical extrapolations on what heaven will be like. I really enjoyed this, but I think I like his Miscellany entries on heaven even better. They’re less polished but they’re the source notes material that this sermon is based on, and they go even deeper.
November 4, 2020
“Happy, thrice happy those who shall thus be found faithful to the end and then shall be welcomed to the joy of their Lord! There they shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and lead them to fountains of living waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Thus, says Jonathan Edwards in his monumental work, Heaven is a World of Love.” Edwards's important book is a part of Crossway’s Short Classics. “Classic” in this case is an understatement. Edwards leads us to the very edge of the heavenly shore.
Heaven is a World of Love was penned by the Puritan divine in the mid-18th-century. And while Edwards’s work is over 250 years old, it speaks directly to readers in our generation. Edwards has gained a reputation for preaching sermons focused on hellfire and brimstone. Indeed, messages like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God do deal directly with the holy wrath of God. But what comes as a surprise to many is that Edwards took great delight in preaching and writing about our eternal place of rest.
Heaven is a World of Love not only describes our heavenly resting place; it draws readers into the very presence of God. In typical fashion, Edwards uses Scripture to alert readers to the reality of heaven. In the end, they will not only learn more about their heavenly home; they will have a greater desire to go there.
Highly recommended!
Heaven is a World of Love was penned by the Puritan divine in the mid-18th-century. And while Edwards’s work is over 250 years old, it speaks directly to readers in our generation. Edwards has gained a reputation for preaching sermons focused on hellfire and brimstone. Indeed, messages like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God do deal directly with the holy wrath of God. But what comes as a surprise to many is that Edwards took great delight in preaching and writing about our eternal place of rest.
Heaven is a World of Love not only describes our heavenly resting place; it draws readers into the very presence of God. In typical fashion, Edwards uses Scripture to alert readers to the reality of heaven. In the end, they will not only learn more about their heavenly home; they will have a greater desire to go there.
Highly recommended!
February 2, 2024
Wow, what an amazing book. Here’s a good quote since I don’t know how to write a review:
“Holy love makes them long for holiness. It is a principle that thirsts after growth. It is in imperfection and in a state of infancy in this world, and it desires growth. It has much to struggle with. In the heart in this world, there are many opposite principles and influences; and it struggles after greater oneness, more liberty, more free exercise, and better fruit. The great strife and struggle of the new man is after holiness. His heart struggles after it, for he has an interest in heaven, and therefore he struggles with that sin that would keep him from it. He is full of ardent desires, breathings, longings, and strivings to be holy. And his hands struggle as well as his heart. He strives in his practice. His life is a life of sincere and earnest endeavor to be universally and increasingly holy. He feels that he is not holy enough, but far from it; and he desires to be nearer perfection, and more like those who are in heaven. And this is one reason why he longs to be in heaven, that he may be perfectly holy. And the great principle that leads him thus to struggle is love. It is not only fear, but it is love to God, love to Christ, and love to holiness. Love is a holy fire within him, and like any other flame that is in a degree pent up, it will and does struggle for liberty; and this struggling is the struggle for holiness.”
A pretty quick read and one that really stirred my heart for heaven! Will probably read this again someday
“Holy love makes them long for holiness. It is a principle that thirsts after growth. It is in imperfection and in a state of infancy in this world, and it desires growth. It has much to struggle with. In the heart in this world, there are many opposite principles and influences; and it struggles after greater oneness, more liberty, more free exercise, and better fruit. The great strife and struggle of the new man is after holiness. His heart struggles after it, for he has an interest in heaven, and therefore he struggles with that sin that would keep him from it. He is full of ardent desires, breathings, longings, and strivings to be holy. And his hands struggle as well as his heart. He strives in his practice. His life is a life of sincere and earnest endeavor to be universally and increasingly holy. He feels that he is not holy enough, but far from it; and he desires to be nearer perfection, and more like those who are in heaven. And this is one reason why he longs to be in heaven, that he may be perfectly holy. And the great principle that leads him thus to struggle is love. It is not only fear, but it is love to God, love to Christ, and love to holiness. Love is a holy fire within him, and like any other flame that is in a degree pent up, it will and does struggle for liberty; and this struggling is the struggle for holiness.”
A pretty quick read and one that really stirred my heart for heaven! Will probably read this again someday
September 29, 2023
What a rich meditation on heaven. We don’t do it enough and needlessly suffer as a result.
March 12, 2024
Wowwwww wow wow I LOVED THIS. Just 115 pages you guys it’s so so good I want to read it every day. It will stir up your heart to seek after the things of heaven so much more!!
December 5, 2023
Simply put, this sermon by Edwards shines brightly amongst his works as a supremely theological yet wonderfully tangible account of glories of the Eternal State. I found so much joy and hope in reading this, finding in it the most vivid description of what it will be like to eternally enjoy fellowship with the God who is the infinite fountain of love; in a world permeated with blessings and richness of that love; surrounded by the host of the redeemed who have been wholly renewed and filled with love.
It is a beautiful picture. And it is also true. The speculative knowledge of these things is wonderful to consider. But I was blessed by Edward’s mainly because he helped remind me that those things will actually be a real, present, never-ending reality. Not yet — but one day.
It is a beautiful picture. And it is also true. The speculative knowledge of these things is wonderful to consider. But I was blessed by Edward’s mainly because he helped remind me that those things will actually be a real, present, never-ending reality. Not yet — but one day.
October 27, 2025
I don’t have the words for this one… it’s truly so incredibly rich!
“There, in heaven, this infinite fountain of love-this eternal three in one—is set open without any obstacle to hinder access to it as it flows forever. There this glorious God is manifested and shines forth in full glory, in beams of love. And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love!”
“There, in heaven, this infinite fountain of love-this eternal three in one—is set open without any obstacle to hinder access to it as it flows forever. There this glorious God is manifested and shines forth in full glory, in beams of love. And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love!”
September 15, 2023
4.9 Stars
A short book that contains Jonathan Edward's marvelous sermon "Heaven Is A World of Love." The sermon unpacks the glorious theological truth that Christians will experience the fullness of the love of God in heaven. Edwards works through the theological implications of this and how it should compel us to meditate on these truths every day. This short book was incredibly encouraging to me, made me more thankful for the ministry of Jonathan Edwards, and helped me long more for heaven where Christ is.
A short book that contains Jonathan Edward's marvelous sermon "Heaven Is A World of Love." The sermon unpacks the glorious theological truth that Christians will experience the fullness of the love of God in heaven. Edwards works through the theological implications of this and how it should compel us to meditate on these truths every day. This short book was incredibly encouraging to me, made me more thankful for the ministry of Jonathan Edwards, and helped me long more for heaven where Christ is.
March 12, 2025
Edwads turns our eyer toward everything that is lovely, and charitable, and worthy of praise. He takes us by the hand and shows us the beauty of holiness, and the Lord of holiness, who is altogether wonderful - the source of all loveliness.
"Look to him as your strength, that by his Spirit he may enable you to press on, and overcome every difficulty of the way. Trust in his promises of heaven to those that love and follow him, which he has confirmed by entering into heaven as the head, and representative, and Savior of his people."
"Look to him as your strength, that by his Spirit he may enable you to press on, and overcome every difficulty of the way. Trust in his promises of heaven to those that love and follow him, which he has confirmed by entering into heaven as the head, and representative, and Savior of his people."
May 10, 2025
Beautiful and moving, Edwards paints a glorious picture of the world to come. Concludes with a powerful description of the opposite: hell and a fervent call for all who do not know Christ to repent and turn to Him in faith. Amen.
February 2, 2024
Yup! Dense. Good. Worshipful.
April 25, 2024
Sweetness!
August 1, 2024
As a girl who can’t talk about heaven w out crying, this book fed my soul and encouraged my love for Jesus and trust in Him.
December 24, 2025
What a wonderful way to end the reading year. Favorite quote as I consider the loss of my Dad and baby, Anna earlier this year:
“Every gem that earth rudely tears away from us here is a glorious jewel forever shining there; every Christian friend that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. There will be the infant of days that we have lost below, the grace to be found above; there the Christian Father, mother, wife, child, and friend, with whom we shall renew the holy fellowship of the saints, which was interrupted by death here, but shall be commenced again in the upper sanctuary, and then shall never end.”
“Every gem that earth rudely tears away from us here is a glorious jewel forever shining there; every Christian friend that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. There will be the infant of days that we have lost below, the grace to be found above; there the Christian Father, mother, wife, child, and friend, with whom we shall renew the holy fellowship of the saints, which was interrupted by death here, but shall be commenced again in the upper sanctuary, and then shall never end.”
October 9, 2024
So much of this book went over my head but I was able to glean little encouragements along the way! 🤍🤍🤍
“What man, acting wisely and considerately, would concern himself much about laying up in store in such a world as this, and would not rather neglect the world and let it go to them that would take it, apply all his heart and strength to lay up treasure in heaven, and press on to that world of love?” (P. 107)
“What man, acting wisely and considerately, would concern himself much about laying up in store in such a world as this, and would not rather neglect the world and let it go to them that would take it, apply all his heart and strength to lay up treasure in heaven, and press on to that world of love?” (P. 107)
September 19, 2025
Really excited to go there someday
May 13, 2023
Absolutely beautiful essay/sermon about heaven. Deeply theological but also a tangible, very sweet encouragement.
October 6, 2025
Man, heaven is going to be so awesome
October 21, 2025
Let this fire and brimstone preacher affect and stir your soul to long for glorious, dazzling, lovely heaven.
September 18, 2025
As a believer, one cannot read Edwards description of love in Heaven without feeling rapturous. The beginning of this booklet begins a bit slow. However, the end of the book more than makes up for the sluggish start.
Regarding 1) love in heaven and 2) a description of existence in hell, I do not believe I have ever read a more thorough, vivid description of either in all of my life.
After reading the chapter/section on love in heaven, my heart was gladdened and I yearned that place where our love and the love of all present perfectly flows to each other and to our Father from which all love springs forth.
After reading the chapter/section on the description of existence in hell, my mind immediately thought how much I would like every resident (over 115,000 at the time of this review) in the valley in which I live to read this description. How can I/we print this as a pamphlet and get this to every household?! This worthwhile endeavor would most definitely fulfill Jude 23 (And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh).
Read this book to be infused with words that will edify, strengthen, and encourage you as you make your way to that heavenly abode.
Regarding 1) love in heaven and 2) a description of existence in hell, I do not believe I have ever read a more thorough, vivid description of either in all of my life.
After reading the chapter/section on love in heaven, my heart was gladdened and I yearned that place where our love and the love of all present perfectly flows to each other and to our Father from which all love springs forth.
After reading the chapter/section on the description of existence in hell, my mind immediately thought how much I would like every resident (over 115,000 at the time of this review) in the valley in which I live to read this description. How can I/we print this as a pamphlet and get this to every household?! This worthwhile endeavor would most definitely fulfill Jude 23 (And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh).
Read this book to be infused with words that will edify, strengthen, and encourage you as you make your way to that heavenly abode.
December 30, 2025
“in all your way, let your eye be fixed on Jesus, who has gone to heaven as your forerun-ner. Look to him. Behold his glory in heaven, that a sight of it may stir you up the more earnestly to desire to be there. Look to him in his example. Consider how, by patient continuance in well-doing and by patient endurance of great suffering, he went before you to heaven. Look to him as your Mediator and trust in the atonement that he has made, entering into the holiest of all in the upper temple. Look to him as your intercessor, who forever pleads for you before the throne of God. Look to him as your strength, that by his Spirit he may enable you to press on and overcome every difficulty of the way. Trust in his promises of heaven to those that love and follow him, which he has confirmed by entering into heaven as the head, representative, and Savior of his people.”
“A glorious work of the Spirit of God has been wrought in their hearts, renewing them by bringing down from heaven, as it were, some of the light and some of the holy, pure flame that is in that world oflove, and giving it place in them.”
“A glorious work of the Spirit of God has been wrought in their hearts, renewing them by bringing down from heaven, as it were, some of the light and some of the holy, pure flame that is in that world oflove, and giving it place in them.”
March 9, 2025
Delightful. Comforting and encouraging. Great.
Jonathan Edwards is often considered to be someone who was too philosophical or focused too much on God's wrath. Well, with this work, all of those claims fall flat. Here, Edwards discusses heaven and its nature, effects, promises, benefits, and characteristics. However, not only heaven but love itself as Heaven is a "world of love." He explains the cause of God’s love, the objects of God’s love, the enjoyment of God’s love, and the fruits of God’s love.
This book showcases the wonderful God of Edwards, and isn't that the job of a pastor? To make God lovely to his people, to call them to grow in their affections for him? Expository exaltation as John Piper puts it. This book does all of those things.
It also showcases Edwards' great exegetical work. His interpretation of the text, his applications, his textual cross references, his work upon the nature of God: excellent.
I recommend, especially if you want to learn more about heaven.
Jonathan Edwards is often considered to be someone who was too philosophical or focused too much on God's wrath. Well, with this work, all of those claims fall flat. Here, Edwards discusses heaven and its nature, effects, promises, benefits, and characteristics. However, not only heaven but love itself as Heaven is a "world of love." He explains the cause of God’s love, the objects of God’s love, the enjoyment of God’s love, and the fruits of God’s love.
This book showcases the wonderful God of Edwards, and isn't that the job of a pastor? To make God lovely to his people, to call them to grow in their affections for him? Expository exaltation as John Piper puts it. This book does all of those things.
It also showcases Edwards' great exegetical work. His interpretation of the text, his applications, his textual cross references, his work upon the nature of God: excellent.
I recommend, especially if you want to learn more about heaven.
July 7, 2025
Amazing! In this sermon, Jonathan Edwards describes the glory of the world of love in which our savior dwells, he encourages us weary pilgrims to chase after holiness and fix our minds, and eyes on heaven. He encourages us to be ready to suffer on the upward road and reminds us that the suffering we feel here in this sinful world is nothing in comparison to the joy and glory of heaven. He encourages us by reminding us of the depravity of this world, of the sinfulness of our hearts, and the incredible mercy of our great God!
January 16, 2023
A very encouraging read. Edwards does a wonderful job of pointing the reader to the glory of Heaven that awaits. He paints a wonderful picture of what will be, and concludes with how that ought to push us onward.
“If heaven be such a blessed world, then let it be our chosen country and the inheritance that we look for and seek.”
“If heaven be such a blessed world, then let it be our chosen country and the inheritance that we look for and seek.”
December 8, 2024
This book really opened my eyes to what it will be like in heaven — a world of love and grace! It was an encouraging reminder to not cherish the things of this world but to dwell on our reward in heaven!
May 21, 2024
Not a necessarily easy read but you gotta dig if you want diamonds and this is a diamond mine. A fav on heaven for sure. Often found myself praying “Lord I want this now. Please come soon” as I read. The last quarter is application as well which is cool. Don’t need to buy it; it’s just the last chapter of “charity and its fruits” which is easy to find for free online.
August 11, 2024
Wonderful
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