Exodus 33:19
When we are absent from our dear friends, they are out of sight; but when we are with them, we have the opportunity and satisfaction of seeing them. So while the saints are in the body, and are absent from the Lord, he is in several respects out of sight: "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing" (1 Peter 1:8).
They have indeed, in this world, a spiritual sight of Christ; but they see through a glass darkly, and with great interruption; but in heaven they see him face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12). "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8). Their beatifical vision of God is in Christ, who is that brightness or effulgence of God's glory, by which his glory shines forth in heaven, to the view of saints and angels there, as well as here on earth.
This is the Sun of righteousness, that is not only the light of this world, but is also the sun that enlightens the heavenly Jerusalem; by whose bright beams it is that the glory of God shines forth there, to the enlightening and making happy all the glorious inhabitants.
—Jonathan Edwards
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
When we are absent from our dear friends, they are out of sight; but when we are with them, we have the opportunity and satisfaction of seeing them. So while the saints are in the body, and are absent from the Lord, he is in several respects out of sight: "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing" (1 Peter 1:8).
They have indeed, in this world, a spiritual sight of Christ; but they see through a glass darkly, and with great interruption; but in heaven they see him face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12). "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8). Their beatifical vision of God is in Christ, who is that brightness or effulgence of God's glory, by which his glory shines forth in heaven, to the view of saints and angels there, as well as here on earth.
This is the Sun of righteousness, that is not only the light of this world, but is also the sun that enlightens the heavenly Jerusalem; by whose bright beams it is that the glory of God shines forth there, to the enlightening and making happy all the glorious inhabitants.
—Jonathan Edwards
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
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