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| What makes heaven? Not its
jewelled walls and pearl gate and streets of golden pave and sea of
glass and river of crystal, but its blessed obedience, its sweet
holiness, its universal and unbroken accord with the divine will, and
its spirit of love. Heaven never can be entered by any in whose hearts
the spirit of heaven is not first found. Heaven must be in us, or we can
never enter its gates. We are prepared for heaven, made meet for the
inheritance of the saints, therefore, just in the measure in which we
have learned to do God's will here on earth as it is done by angels and
saints in that home of divine glory. Luke 17:21: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (KJV) |
