. The happiness of heaven, Thomas
Sherman, divine breathings, or a pious soul thirsting after
Christ. No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love
Him. 1 Corinthians 2.9. The vessel
of our soul is too capacious to be filled with all the pleasures
and delights the world put together, but hereafter our pleasures and
delights shall be too great for the most capacious vessel to
hold, Our glory shall be so great that power, as well as goodness,
shall be given by God Himself to renew and enlarge these vessels,
that they may be capable of receiving and retaining that glory. Strength
and love shall go forth together to prepare and elevate our dispositions,
that they may be suitable for such a transcendent and exalted
state. At present, we are too weak to
bear such a weight of glory, therefore God will immortalize
us, that we may be able to sustain it. And because our eternal joys
cannot fully enter into us while in this world, we shall fully
enter into them in heaven. What fool would place only a
few drops of carnal pleasures into so large a vessel as the
soul, and neglect the spring, or rather the ocean of unspeakable
bliss and everlasting glory? O my soul, what a glorious day
is coming when the vessels of mercy shall be cast into the
ocean of mercy, and be filled to the very brim with divine
mercy. Then the soul that is lovesick
for Jesus shall lie in the bosom of divine love. and forever be
satisfied with unfathomable love, then the children of God shall
have a full fruition of God and be forever satisfied with the
presence of God, the joy of His glorious presence, the fullness
of His joy, the sweetness of this fullness, the eternity of
this sweetness, the heart of man can never adequately comprehend. Lord, let the glory which you
have prepared for me turn my soul from the vanity of sin.