And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus – Ephesians 2:6
The new life that made us sympathetic with God and holy angels and holy men and with everything that is from above, has also made us capable of great pleasure. Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. I am certain that no ungodly man has any conception of the joy which often fills the believer’s spirit. If worldlings could only know the bliss of living near to God, and of basking in the light of His countenance, they would throw their wealth into the sea, and ten thousand times as much, if they might but get a glimpse of this joy that can never be bought, but which God gives to all who trust His dear Son… Oh, the thrill of joy that has sometimes gone through our spirits! We could almost have died with delight at times when we have realized the glorious things that God has prepared for them that love Him. This joy we never knew till we received the new life.
But I must add that we are also capable of acute pain to which we were strangers once. God has made our conscience quick as the apple of the eye; He has made our soul as sensitive as a raw wound, so that the very shadow of sin falling on the believer’s heart will cause him great pain…The heart itself then, is broken, and bleeds at ten thousand wounds. Yet this is one of the results of our possessing the new life; and I will say this, the sharpest pang of spiritual life is better than the highest joy of carnal life. When the believer is at his worst, he is better than the unbeliever at his best; his reasons for happiness are always transcendently above all the reasons for joy that worldlings can never know. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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