He is not content for His dear people to remain under the deadening effects of sin. He will not permit them to go on in that horrible state one moment longer than is absolutely necessary for His wise purposes. His heart is filled with compassion as He longs for the moment when He will liberate one saint at a time throughout the course of history, and then all who remain at His return. He will free them from the agony of death (Psalm 16:10, Acts 2:24 figuratively speaking) and open the floodgates of blessings upon them. He will pull His people out of the hypoxia of sin, infuse the life-giving oxygen of spiritual blessing, so for the first time ever, these redeemed saints will feel completely alive. Filled with the kainos of God, life, vigour, energy, enthusiasm, vitality!

God will bring His people into an experience of life that the fallen human mind, in it’s anaesthetized state is unable to visualize. In this new state, what is specifically delightful here is freedom from a mind that lusts for sin more than it longs for God. God will give us hearts that will so gaze upon His dazzling beauty that we will not blink again forever, in case we miss something. I spoke before about beauty as a thing that so enraptures the mind of the beholder that his attention cannot be diverted. Beauty attracts. Beauty draws. Beauty has a spellbinding power from which the longing eye is powerless to withdraw its gaze. How much more the beauty of God, the epitome of every sample of true beauty in this world He has created.

You simply set your eyes upon a vision of beauty that takes your breath away, and as you feel the attraction and desire to keep your eyes upon that beauty, remind yourself that God is infinitely more beautiful than that. God’s beauty is infinitely greater is quality, in quantity, in arresting power, in desirability. Our experiences of seeing beauty in this world are merely the stepping stones through the bog of this world that lead to the radiant city of the beautiful God.

While we lay these facts down now on “paper” and you can grasp something of God’s beauty, rest assured that there is always more. It is always more thrilling and more worth longing for than you can imagine. And God, when He gives us our spiritual bodies, is lavishing on us something so delightful, He knows, that eternity will be a thrill beyond what our natural bodies could endure. Our new spiritual bodies are necessary in order for us to continue to exist in that environment of overpowering beauty without being completely consumed.