Praise God—Sunday is just a few days away! In order to get ready for church, here are some great words from Jonathan Edwards, found in his, “Standing In Grace” book. . . .
“The very quintessence of all religion, the very thing wherein lies summarily the sincerity, spirituality, and divinity of religion, and that the apostle [Paul] teaches us, is love.“ . . . The fear of God without love is nothing other than the fear of devils; and all that outward respect and obedience, all that resignation, that repentance and sorrow for sin, that form in religion, that outward devotion that is perform-ed merely from such a fear without love, is all of it a practical lie.
“ . . . He who has once been brought to see, or rather to taste, the superlative loveliness of the Divine Being, will need no more to make him long after the enjoyment of God, to make him rejoice in the happiness of God, and to desire that this supremely excellent Being may be pleased and glorified."
