Thoughts Heavenward

"What is the essence of eternal life?  'That they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent' (John 17:3).  Our primary joy in Heaven will be knowing and seeing God. Every other joy will be derivative, flowing from the fountain of our relationship with God.  Jonathan Edwards said, 'God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption.  He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. . .The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things. . .but that which they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other, or in anything else whatsoever, that will yield them delight and happiness, will be what will be seen of God in them.'" ~ Randy Alcorn, Heaven, pp. 175-176.