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[b]Playing with monkeys and parrots[/b]

(Thomas Watson, "The Christian's Charter")

"You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with
eternal pleasures at Your right hand!" Psalm 16:11

Eternity is the highest link of the saint's happiness!
The believer shall be forever bathing in the pure
and pleasant fountain of bliss! There is neither
intermission nor expiration--in the joys of heaven!
When once God has set His plants in the celestial
paradise, He will never more pluck them up! You
may sooner separate light from the sun, than a
glorified saint from Jesus Christ. O eternity, eternity!
what a never-failing spring of delight will that be!

The glory of heaven is infinitely satisfying! There is
neither lack, nor excess. This cannot be properly said
of anything but heaven. You who look to the world for
satisfaction, remember what the creature says, "It
is not in me!" Heaven alone, is commensurate to the
vast desires of the soul. Here the Christian cries out in
a divine ecstasy, "I have enough, my Savior, I have
enough!" O eternity, eternity! what a never-failing
spring of delight will that be!

"You feed them from the abundance of Your own house,
letting them drink from Your rivers of delight!" Psalm 36:8.
Not drops--but rivers! These alone can quench the thirst.
Every day in heaven, shall be a feast! There is no lack at
this feast! Here is soul-satisfaction! O the glory of this
paradise! It is more than we can ever imagine! There is:
unspotted purity,
unstained honor,
unparalleled beauty!

There will God give us "infinitely more than we would ever
dare to ask or hope!" Is not this enough? What more could
we ask for! A man could ask for million of worlds--but in
heaven God will give us more than we can ask; nay,
more than we can ever imagine! We could imagine--
what if all the dust of the earth were turned to silver;
what if every stone were a wedge of gold;
what if every flower were a ruby;
what if every blade of grass were a pearl;
what if every sand in the sea were a diamond!
Yet all this is nothing--compared to the glory of heaven!
It is as impossible for any man in his deepest thoughts,
to comprehend glory--as it would be for him to measure
the heavens with a ruler; or drain the great ocean with
a thimble. O incomparable place!

But why do I expatiate? These things are unspeakable
and full of glory! Had I as many tongues as hairs on my
head, I could never sufficiently set forth the beauty and
resplendency of this blissful inheritance! Such is the
excellency of this celestial paradise, that if the angels
should take up their pencil to delineate it in its colors,
they would but stain and eclipse the glory of it! I have
given you only the dark shadow the picture, and that
but crudely and imperfectly!

How should we be inflamed with desire to taste of those
rare and sweet delicacies, which are above at God's right
hand! O what madness is it for men to spin out their time,
and tire out their strength--in pursuing the vanities of this
world! Who would, for the indulging of a lust, forfeit so
glorious an inheritance! Lay the whole world in scales
with heaven--it is lighter than vanity!

It is reported of Caesar, that traveling through a certain
city, as he passed along, he saw some of the women
playing with monkeys and parrots; at which sight
he said, "What! have they no children to play with!"
So I say, when I see men toying with these earthly
and beggarly vanities, "What! are there not more
glorious and sublime things to mind!"


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