Musings of Jonathan Edwards

I'm often drawn to the writings of the old theologians, partly because I enjoy reading their applications of Scripture to the times in which they lived and partly because I love their use of the English language as, in my humble opinion, it should still be used.

Jonathan Edwards lived from October 5, 1703 until March 22,1758.  He was considered one of America's greatest intellectuals and was acknowledged to be "America's most important and original philosophical theologian", according to all- powerful Wikipedia.  

In his writings on Psalm 16, Ben Patterson observes that "Jonathan Edwards thought of God the way David thought of God in this psalm.  It was for the 'sweet delight in God' that he gave himself to God."-Ben Patterson (God's Prayer Book:  The Power and Pleasure of Praying the Psalms-a gift from my good friend, George.)

Edwards wasn't afraid to expose his sensitive core when he wrote, "The first instance I remember of that sort of inward, sweet delight in God and in divine things, that I have lived much in since, was in reading these words, 'Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.  Amen.'-1 Timothy 1:17.  As I read those words, there came into my soul, and was, as it were, diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different than anything I ever experienced before.  Never any words of Scripture seemed to me as these did.  I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was, and how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to Him in Heaven, and be, as it were, swallowed up in Him forever."-Jonathan Edwards.

I have experienced that "sweet delight in God" many times over while on this journey through cancer and whether or not I am fully healed in this lifetime, I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the same sweet delight in God will always be within my reach.

How reassuring.

"Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to You for refuge.

I said to The Lord, 'You are my Master.  Every good thing I have comes from You'."-Psalm 16:1,2 (NLT)-A psalm of David.

On the health front:

Nothing of note to note....so that's a praise.