Beautiful Heaven Quotes, Part 7

Beautiful Heaven Quotes, Part 7

Compiled by Grace Gems

Better than winning the lottery!
Spurgeon, "THE JOINT HEIRS AND THEIR DIVINE PORTION"
Weigh the riches of Christ in scales and his treasures in balances and then think to count the treasures which belong to the saints! Reach the bottom of Christ's sea of joy, and then hope to understand the bliss which God has prepared for them that love him. Overleap the boundaries of Christ's possessions if you can, and then dream of ending a limit to the possessions of the elect of God. "All things are yours, for you are Christ's..." What honor is conferred on you, believer, to be joint heir with the King of kings, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace! You came here today from your toil, and your bones have scarcely forgotten yesterday's weariness; but you are co-heir with him who rules all heaven! You are come here in poverty and you will go home to a scant meal in a narrow room, but you are co-heir with him who made the worlds! Come, lift up your head; envy no man his 'dukedom'; think no man's 'princeship' worth your coveting; you are greater than the greatest, for you are joint heir with Christ! We are heirs of ALL things- heaven and earth, time and eternity, things conceivable and inconceivable, finite and infinite, human and divine. Christ's property extends to all, and we are co-heirs! Oh! it is a glorious truth. Oratory may stand back, and eloquence may hold her tongue. The doctrine must be stated in its naked truth. She is, "when unadorned, adorned the most." This glorious truth is most sweet when earth's honeyed words are taken away, and most lustrous when we no longer attempt to illuminate her with human language. We are heirs with Christ! All that he has, all that he is, therefore, belongs to us!
Too much pleasure is a pain! (Thomas Watson, "The Lord's Prayer")
"In Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures!" Psalm 16:11 The glories of heaven are constantly exhilarating and refreshing. There is fullness--but no excess. Worldly comforts, though sweet--yet grow stale in time. A down-bed pleases awhile--but soon we are weary and must rise. Too much pleasure is a pain! But the glory of heaven never gluts; because, as there are all imaginable rarities, so every moment fresh delights spring from God into the glorified soul. In the kingdom of heaven--we shall be freed from the vanity and dissatisfaction of the creature. Take those worldly things which are most pleasing, and from which we promise ourselves most contentment --still, of the spirit and essence of them all--we shall say, "Behold, all was vanity--a chasing after the wind!" Ecclesiastes 2:11 God never did, nor ever will--put a satisfying virtue into any creature. In the sweetest music the world makes, either some string is lacking, or out of tune. But in the kingdom of heaven, we shall be freed from these dissatisfactions. The world is like a painted landscape, in which you may see gardens with fruit trees, beautifully drawn--but you cannot enter them. But into the joys of heaven, you may enter. "Enter into the joy of your Lord!" The soul shall be satisfied while it bathes in those rivers of pleasure at God's right hand. "I will be fully satisfied--for I will see You face to face!" Psalm 17:15
Your inheritance? (Octavius Winslow "Evening Thoughts")
"He who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God and he will be my son." Rev. 21:7 How vast, how illimitable, then, the inheritance of the saints, inheriting "all things!" This is a beautiful idea of heaven; it is a lovely picture, on which the eye of faith delights to dwell. The earthly heir looks at his inheritance, surveys it, walks through it, luxuriates amidst its beauties, and anticipates its full possession. The heir of glory has his inheritance too; it is heaven! He looks to it, he longs for it; and soon the Savior will come in personal glory, and institute him into its full and eternal possession!
No hissing serpent! (Thomas Boston, "Human Nature in its Fourfold State")
Believers shall be made completely happy in the kingdom of Heaven. They shall be fully freed from sin, which of all evils, is the worst. They shall be free from all temptation to sin. Satan can have no access to tempt them any more, by himself, or by his agents. No hissing serpent can come into the paradise above! No snare or trap can be laid there, to catch the feet of the saints. They may walk there without fear, for they can be in no hazard in the promised land. They shall be set beyond the possibility of sinning, for they shall be confirmed in holiness. The guilt and the reigning power of sin are then taken away. The corrupt nature will be fully removed, and no vestiges of it left in their souls. Their nature shall be altogether pure and sinless. There shall be no darkness in their minds; but the understanding will be as a globe of pure and unmixed light. There shall not be the least aversion to good, nor the least inclination to evil, in their wills. They will be brought to a perfect conformity to the will of God--blessed with angelic purity, and fixed therein. Their affections shall not be liable to the least disorder or irregularity. They will get such a fixed habit of purity, as they can never lose. They will be so refined from all earthly dross, as never more to savor of anything but of Heaven. Their graces shall then be fully perfected. There will be no more ground for complaints of weakness of grace, or of an evil heart, or a corrupt nature. And they shall be freed from all the effects of sin: "God will remove all of their sorrows, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever!" Revelation 21:4 In Heaven they find the completion and satisfaction of all their desires--having the full enjoyment of God, and uninterrupted communion with Him. In the heavenly Canaan, Immanuel's land--nothing is lacking to complete the happiness of the inhabitants. This is the holy and happy country--blessed with a perpetual spring, and which yields all things for necessity, convenience, and delight!
The great attraction of heaven! (Plumer, "Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness")
"Your heart must not be troubled. In My Father's house are many dwelling places. I am going away to prepare a place for you. I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am--you may be also!" John 14 "I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far!" Philippians 1:23 The great attraction of heaven is the Lord Jesus Christ! He Himself is the object chiefly enjoyed. To be with Jesus, and like Jesus, and to behold His glory --constitute the heaven which true believers desire! They long to behold that blessed face which was buffeted for them! Their eternal anthem is, "All praise to Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by shedding His blood for us! Give to Him everlasting glory! He rules forever and ever! Amen!" Revelation 1:5-6
From desert to garden! (J.R. Miller)
In traveling to California, we passed over hundreds of miles of the dreariest desert. The hot sands glowed and burned under the sun's rays. Rain scarcely ever falls, and nothing grows on the arid wastes except straggling sagebush and wild cacti. On and on our train rolled, hour after hour, amid choking dust and unrelieved desolation. At length, however, we began to pass into the first fringes of luxuriance, and soon we were in the midst of the garden splendors of Southern California--flowers, fragrance, and fruit, masses of roses and flowers of all kinds, orange groves, clumps of ornamental trees, vineyards, and palm trees. In an hour we had left behind us the dreary desert--and had entered the richest garden luxuriance of the world! It is just so with many Christians, in leaving this poor world for Heaven. Here on earth are trials, afflictions, struggles, strifes, bitter tears, disappointments, injustices, hardships and cares. Life seems all desert to these desert toilers. No springs of fresh water burst up along the way to refresh them. Nothing grows in the hot arid fields, to be food for their heart hunger. What must Heaven be to these weary ones, when they enter it--leaving forever behind them, the dreary desolation of this world? In an hour they will pass from the heat, strife, and bitterness of earthly sorrow--into the eternal blessedness, the perfect love, and the unbroken joy of Heaven! "In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are eternal pleasures!" Psalm 16:11 "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined-- what God has prepared for those who love Him!" 1 Corinthians 2:9
Among the wonders in Heaven, shall be these three (Charles Spurgeon)
Among the wonders in Heaven, shall be these three: The first wonder is that we shall see so many there, whom we did not expect to see. The second is that we shall miss so many there, whom we did expect to see. But the third wonder will be the greatest wonder of all--to see ourselves there! And can it be, that I should gain An interest in the Savior's blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! how can it be That Thou, my God, should die for me? Amazing love! how can it be That Thou, my God, should die for me? Tis mercy all, immense and free For O my God, it found out me! Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, should die for me?
The battlefield! (Charles Spurgeon)
There is not a place which a believer walks in--which is free from snares. Behind every tree--is the tempter with his barbed arrow! Behind every bush--is the roaring lion, the Devil, your great enemy, prowling around, looking for some victim to devour! Under every piece of grass--hides the deadly adder! This present world is the battlefield; Heaven is a place of complete victory and glorious triumph. This present world is the land of the sword and the spear; Heaven is the land of the wreath and the crown. This present world is the land of the garment rolled in blood and the dust of the fight; Heaven is the land of the trumpet's joyful sound--the place of the white robe and of the shout of conquest. Oh, what a thrill of joy shall shoot through the hearts of all the redeemed, when their conquests shall be complete; when death itself, the last of foes, shall be slain; when Satan shall be dragged captive at the chariot wheels of Christ; when He shall have overthrown sin and trampled corruption as the mire of the streets; when the great shout of universal victory shall rise from the hearts of all the redeemed! "He will remove all of their sorrows, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever!" Revelation 21:4
That is Heaven! (Matthew Mead, "The Truest Ground of Joy")
Heaven is the habitation of the great God, where He dwells in His infinite glory! Heaven is a freedom from all evil--both of sin and suffering. There is no SIN there. Grace weakens sin--but it is glory which abolishes sin! There is no AFFLICTION there. Sin and sorrow came in together--and they shall go out together. There the Shunamite's son no more complains of his aching head; nor Mephibosheth of his lame feet. There Job's blotches are perfectly cured; and Lazarus' sores are all dried up! Heaven is the quintessence of all blessedness, the sum of all felicity. Reckon up all comforts and pleasures, and satisfactions, and delights, and happinesses--and put them all together; and then separate from them all finiteness and imperfection--that is Heaven! All the objects of joy which are scattered among the creatures--are everlastingly heaped up in Heaven! Whatever it is that you delight in--it will be in Heaven! Do you delight in wealth? There are "unsearchable riches in Heaven," Ephesians 3:8. "Unending riches," Proverbs 8:18. Unsearchable--and therefore without bottom and without bounds. Unending--and therefore without termination. Do you delight in honor and dignity? In Heaven, the glory of the great God Himself shall be put upon you! "We know, when He shall appear, that we shall be like Him!" 1 John 3:2. "Such honor have all His saints!" Psalm 149:9 Is it pleasure you delight in? In Heaven "there are rivers of pleasures!" Psalm 36:8. "You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand!" Psalm 16:11 Do you delight in feasting? In Heaven there is both plenty and variety--fullness without excess: "the bread of life, the tree of life, the fountain of life!" Do you delight in music? It is not fit that such a feast should be without music! In Heaven, the saints and angels are in one concord, "singing eternal hallelujahs to Him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever!" Do you delight in magnificent residences? In Heaven is "a house not made with hands--whose builder and maker is God!" "The city was pure gold, as clear as glass. The wall of the city was built on foundation stones inlaid with twelve gems. The twelve gates were made of pearls--each gate from a single pearl! And the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass!" Revelation 21:18-21. Thus you see, that Heaven is the sum of all good, and the quintessence of all felicity! "So rejoice in the LORD and be glad, all who obey Him! Shout for joy, all whose hearts are pure!" Psalm 32:11
It will matter little when I lie in my coffin! (Letters of J. C. Philpot)
What does it really matter where we spend the few years of our pilgrimage here below? Life is short, vain, and transitory; and if I live in comfort and wealth, or in comparative poverty, it will matter little when I lie in my coffin! This life is soon passing away, and an eternal state fast coming on! It will greatly matter whether our religion was natural or spiritual, our faith human or divine, our hope a heavenly gift or a spider's web! But our blind, foolish hearts are so concerned about things which are but the dust of the balance, and so little anxious about our all in all. There is no greater inheritance than to be a son or daughter of the Lord Almighty. To have a saving interest in the electing love of the Father, the redeeming blood of the Son, and the sanctifying operations of the Holy Spirit, is worth a million of worlds! Without such, we must be eternally miserable; and with it eternally happy. "For God has reserved a priceless inheritance for His children. It is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay!" 1 Peter 1:4
One hour in heaven (Thomas Watson, "A Treatise Concerning Meditation")
Meditate upon HEAVEN. Heaven is the quintessence of all blessedness. There the saints shall have all their holy hearts can desire! We shall behold the King in His beauty! What a glorious place will this be! In heaven "God will be all in all"--beauty to the eye, music to the ears, joy to the heart; and this He will be to the poorest saint, as well as the richest. O Christian, who is now at your hard labor, perhaps following the plough--you shall sit on the throne of glory! The poorest believer shall be taken from his laboring work, and set at the right hand of God, having the crown of righteousness upon his head! "For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory!" 2 Corinthians 4:17 Meditation on heaven would excite and quicken OBEDIENCE. It would put spurs to our sluggish hearts, and make us "abound in the work of God, knowing that our labor is not in vain in the Lord!" The weight of glory would not hinder us in our race--but cause us to run the faster! This weight would add wings to duty! Meditation on heaven would make us strive after heart PURITY, because only the "pure in heart shall see God." Meditation on heaven would be a pillar of SUPPORT under our sufferings. Heaven will make amends for all. One hour in heaven will make us forget all our sorrows! The sun dries up the water; just so--one beam of God's glorious face will dry up all our tears! "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain!" Rev. 21:4
We will be like Him! (Octavius Winslow, "Eternal Glorification")
"We know that when He comes we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is." 1 John 3:2 Perfect holiness is the eternal glory of the saints! The very utterance of the thought seems to awaken music in the soul. Seeing Christ as He is, and knowing Him as we are known--we also shall be like Him. Oh, what a conception! What a thought! No more elements of evil working like leaven in the soul. No more traces and fetters of corruption. No more evil heart of unbelief, perpetually departing from God. No more desperate depravity. No more sin warring within. No more temptation assailing from without. All is perfect holiness now! The outline of the Divine image is complete, for the believer has awakened in the finished likeness of his Lord! Extirpate all sin--and you have erased all sorrow! Complete the grace--and you have perfected the glory! You then have chased all sadness from the heart, and have dried all tears from the eye. That glory will be the glory of unsullied purity. Nothing of sin remains but its recollection; and that recollection but heightens our conception of the preciousness of the blood--that shall have effaced every stain, and of the greatness and sovereignty of that grace--which shall have brought us there.
Crawling along the road of life (James Meikle, "The Traveler")
"I desire to depart and be with Christ--which is better by far!" Philippians 1:23 What horrors may beset the carnally-minded, when they think of their death! Yet no prospect affords me such pleasure as that of my death and final change! I have exceeding great cause to rejoice, when I compare what I now am and suffer--with what I shall then enjoy and be! Now my joys are future, and in expectation--for I walk by faith, and live on hope. But then they shall be present, and in possession--for I shall dwell in light, and feed on fruition! Now I am daily struggling with death and sin--but then I shall eternally triumph over both! Now I toil along a tiresome road--but then I shall walk above these skies in the very heavens! Now my eyes rove from vanity to vanity--but then they shall see, yes, fix upon the King of kings in His divinest glory! Now I dwell among fire-brands, and surrounding sinners daily give me pain--but then I shall dwell among the multitudes of the redeemed, with angels and archangels--and not one sinner among all the heavenly multitudes! Now I often bewail myself as a frail inhabitant of feeble clay--but then I shall find myself possessed of all the vigor of immortality--of all the briskness of eternal life! Now I have foes without, and foes within; the sin of my nature, and the idols of my heart; enemies from earth and hell to grapple with--but then, triumphing over every foe, I shall sing the victories of the divine Conqueror, and never cease from this matchless, this inexhaustible theme! Now the cruel hand of death comes among my friends and family, and leaves me like a sparrow on the house-top alone, or mourning in the wilderness--but then not one of all the numerous inhabitants shall so much as say, "I am sick," because they are an assembly of sinless ones. Now my Sun often conceals Himself, so that I go mourning without Him--but then in the light of His countenance, in the brightness of His glory, shall I walk on forever! Now I am crawling along the road of life in company with fellow-worms, who dwell in cottages of clay, and are crushed before the moth--but then, dignified with His divine likeness, I shall dwell with the Ancient of days, and enjoy the dearest and most intimate communion with Jehovah and the Lamb forever! Now my time is wasting away, and I may be very near my latter end--but then an endless eternity shall be mine, and my bliss shall be as durable as it is desirable; and as permanent as it is pleasant. O! then, who would not desire death--which is so pregnant with glory and bliss! "I desire to depart and be with Christ--which is better by far!" Philippians 1:23