"The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Throne" c 1803-1805 by William Blake.
I have been reading, along with roughly 100 other Christian bloggers, Jonathan Edwards' "Religious Affections".
We are starting to get into the meat of the text and one paragraph stood out to me in particular:
“But yet that idea which the saint has of the loveliness of God, and that sensation, and that kind of delight he has in his view, which is as it were the marrow and quintessence of his love, is peculiar, and entirely diverse from anything that a natural man has, or can have any notion of.”
In speaking of the "true believer", Edwards first starts out with that fact that this true believer must be born again and thereby filled with God's Holy Spirit.
This is of course foolishness to the world's thinking, and mind boggling for the Christian. God indwells me? Really..think about it...put aside all that you have heard of this all your life...and really dwell on this.
Edwards further speaks of a "sensation of the soul" that the true believer possesses. I intend to further pursue this thought.
In this pursuit, I found a video of Dr. Sam Storms, speaking at John Piper's 2003 Conference on Jonathan Edwards. The subject of his talk is "Joys Eternal Increase: Edwards on the Beauty of Heaven".
Certainly one of the sensations of our souls in that, as Peter told us, we are elect exiles, and our souls long for our place in the heavenly kingdom.
Watch and listen deeply to Dr. Sam Storm in this video and see if you don't find a "sensation of the soul" stirring deeply and strongly inside of you!
