Praise God—it is almost Sunday again! In order to help us prepare our hearts for the church’s Sabbath Worship Services, here are good words from Jona-than Edwards. (They are taken from a Soli Deo Gloria book, entitled, “Stand-ing In Grace.") . . .
“ . . . So that the first effect of the power of God in the heart in regeneration is to give the heart a divine taste or sense, to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the divine nature; and indeed this is all the immediate effect of the divine power that there is; and this is all the Spirit of God needs to do in order to produce all good effects in the soul. If God by an immediate act of His, gives the soul a relish of the ex-cellency of His own nature, other things will follow of themselves without any further act of the divine power than only what is necessary to uphold the na-ture of the faculties of the soul. 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.” [all italics mine]
