“God himself will be our happiness. He will be happiness enough, for He is all in all.
He will be all unto us in a more transcendent manner than the glory of the creatures. These contentments which God gives are the very spirits of comforts, which will add more happiness than all the drugs of worldly pleasures can administer unto us.
For all the happiness that could be had here, nay, further, all the happiness God could create to men as men here on earth, are but as one drop to the bottomless ocean of God’s glory.
And yet this falls short, this is too scant a comparison.
For I say, infinite millions of drops will at length make an ocean, but ten thousand millions of the glories of this world cannot make up one drop of the glory which is in God.
Thus God will be all things to us, and all things in a transcendent manner.
God will pour out Himself unto us. He will give us communication with Himself of this His infinite happiness, He will pour out all His glory unto us.
Ephesians 3:19: ‘That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God,’ which will give all comfort.
Open thy mouth wide, He is able to fill it. For one drop of God will fill thee full. He will fill thee with fulness, and fulness of the best kind.
Oh, what ineffable comfort will this be, when the vessels of mercy shall be thrown into this bottomless sea of glory!
Therefore do but think with yourselves, what a happiness this will be, when you shall be made partakers of God’s glory, of all the blessedness that is in God.”
–Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Volume 7 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 1861/2006), 7: 463.
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