Wednesday, September 24, 2014

A Wellspring of True Happiness

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'”  Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.  John 7:37-39

“He who has divine love in him has a wellspring of true happiness that he carries about in his own breast, a fountain of sweetness, a spring of the water of life.  There is a pleasant calmness and serenity and brightness in the soul that accompanies the exercises of this holy affection.”

-- Jonathan Edwards, quoted in Dane C. Ortlund, Edwards on the Christian Life (Wheaton, 2014), page 33.

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