This is such an amazing quote from Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s sermon “Justification and Glorification” that I almost want to take the time to diagram it. I’d just have to purchase poster board. It’s a nearly 200-word sentence!

 

If I might very hastily divide this glory into its constituent elements, I think I should say it means perfect rest. “There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God”; life in its fullest sense; life with emphasis; eternal life; nearness to God; closeness to the divine heart; a sense of his love shed abroad in all its fulness; likeness to Christ; fulness of communion with him; abundance of the Spirit of God, being filled with all the fulness of God; an excess of joy; a perpetual influx of delight; perfection of holiness; no stain nor thought of sin; perfect submission to the divine will; a delight and acquiescence in, and conformity to that will; absorption as it were into God, the creature still the creature, but filled with the Creator to the brim; serenity caused by a sense of safety; continuance of heavenly service; an intense satisfaction in serving God day and night; bliss in the company of perfect spirits and glorified angels; delight in the retrospect of the past, delight in the enjoyment of the present, and in the prospect of the future; something ever new and evermore the same; a delightful variety of satisfaction, and a heavenly sameness of delight; clear knowledge; absence of all clouds; ripeness of understanding; excellence of judgment; and, above all, an intense vigour of heart, and our whole heart set upon him whom our eye shall see to be altogether lovely!