# “Your God, your friend, your Father, and your portion” by Jonathan Edwards

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“This God, to whom there is none in heaven to be compared, nor any among the sons
of the mighty to be likened; this God who is from everlasting to everlasting, an
infinitely powerful, wise, holy, and lovely being, who is the Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, is your God.

He is reconciled to you and is become your friend. There is a friendship between
you and the Almighty; you are become acquainted with Him, and He has made known 
Himself to you, and communicates Himself to you, converses with you as a friend,
dwells with you, and in you, by His Holy Spirit.

Yea, He has taken you into a nearer relation to Him: He is become your Father, and
owns you for His child, and doth by you, and will do by you, as a child; He cares
for you, will see that you are provided for, will see that you never shall want 
anything that will be useful to you. He has made you one of His heirs, and a co-
heir with His Son, and will bestow an inheritance upon you, as it is bestowed upon
a child of the King of Kings.

You are now in some measure sanctified, and have the image of God upon your souls,
but hereafter, when God shall receive you, His dear child, into His arms, and shall
admit you to the perfect enjoyment of Him as your portion, you will be entirely 
transformed into His likeness, for you shall see Him as He is.

The consideration of having such a glorious God for your God, your friend, your 
Father, and your portion, and that you shall eternally enjoy Him as such, is enough
to make you despise all worldly afflictions and adversities, and even death itself,
and to trample them under your feet.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “God’s Excellencies” in _The Works of Jonathan Edwards_, Vol.
10, _Sermons and Discourses 1720-1723_. Ed. Wilson H. Kimnach (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1992), 435.

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