God Threatens Terrible Things, If We Will Not Be Happy
March 31, 2008 – 4:54 pmFrom here:
In the end, there will be only one commandment for God’s servants to obey forever and ever: “Be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create” (Isaiah 65:18). For those who refuse to rejoice in what God creates, Jeremy Taylor, the seventeenth-century Anglican bishop, summed it up: “God threatens terrible things, if we will not be happy.” How could it be otherwise? Hell is simply eternal souls, who don’t want God, getting their way. And Heaven is eternal souls, who long for God, getting all they want – God himself in infinite, joyful measure. And new as it will be, the setting for our lasting joy will be new heavens and a new earth, analogous to where we live now. It will not be alien but recognizable. We will finally be home – with God.
-Ben
