What Enjoyment Awaits us in Heaven.
By St. Augustine
If you see a long life of health, there they will have a healthy eternity, an eternal health, because the just shall live forever; the Lord hath said, “they shall surely live.” If satisfaction, they shall be satisfied when they see the glory of the Lord; they shall be filled with the riches of the house of God. If melody, then the angels shall sing to God without ceasing. If any pure pleasure delights you, the Lord will give you to drink of the rivers of his pleasure. If wisdom, then the very wisdom of God shall show you true wisdom. If friendship, they shall love God more than themselves, and one another as themselves; and God shall love them more than they themselves do; for they shall love him, and one another through him, but he shall love himself, them through himself. If concord, there all shall be of one mind, for the will of God shall be supreme. If power delights you, they shall be able to execute their will as God does his; for as God does what he wills by his own power, so through his power shall the saints execute their will. For as they shall desire nothing but what he wills, so he shall will what they desire, and what they desire must therefore be. If honor and riches, God shall appoint his good and faithful servants over many things, yea, they shall be called the sons of God and gods; they shall be heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. But if certain security, they shall be as certain of never losing their security, as they will be certain they will never lose it of their own will; and that God who loves them, will take away from them nothing which they desire to retain; and that nothing else can do so, for God is on their side, and nothing shall separate them from God. How great and blessed is the joy where so great and blessed a good is!—St. Augustine.