Desires Of The Soul.

What do you desire, O my soul? 

With what imaginable excellency would you clothe yourself! 

What desirable object would you pitch upon? 

Is it beauty? 

The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 

So shall they be forever with the Lord.

Is it riches? 

Wealth and riches are the portion of all God's children...

Every one in His family shall have a rich, a glorious, an incorruptible, and eternal inheritance among the saints!

Is it honor? 

What honor can compare to this...

To be a friend and favorite of God...

And a spouse of Christ...

To have a crown of righteousness, of life, and of glory! 

Nay more, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory set upon your head!

Is it pleasure? 

The just shall enter into their Master's joy...

And there are rivers of pleasure at God's right hand for evermore!

In a word, what would you have, O my soul? 

A merging of all the glorious things of eternity?

If heaven, and the holiness thereof are what you seek...

Then heaven and the excellencies thereof you shall find!

Lord, make me holy...then I shall be happy!

Psa 73:25  Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
 

Psa 73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 

~Thomas Sherman~