The Good and Joy of the Redeemed - Jonathan Edwards

The following article has been taken from Monergism.com and published in Polish with the author's permission.

The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling-place, their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honour and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the end of the world. The Lord God is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the "river of the water of life" that runs, and "the tree of life that grows, in the midst of the paradise of God." The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast. The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things; they will enjoy the angels, and will enjoy one another; but that which they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other, or in any thing else whatsoever that will yield them delight and happiness, will be what shall be seen of God in them.

About the Author

Jonathan Edwards was a prominent American Reformed theologian and philosopher. A key figure for the First Great Awakening. He became known as one of the most versatile American theologians and philosophers of the Enlightenment. His contributions cover a wide variety of fields, but Edwards is most often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, his Puritan heritage, his theology of Christian joy and happiness in God, and his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."