God is not only that which "eye hath not seen," but that which eye can
_never_ see; its glories are not of that kind at all which can ever
stream in forms of beauty on the eye, or pour in melody upon the
enraptured ear--not such joys as genius in its most gifted hour (here
called "the heart of man") can invent or imagine: it is something
which these sensuous organs of ours never can appreciate--bliss of
another kind altogether, revealed to the spirit of man by the Spirit
of God--joys such as spirit alone can receive.

Do you ask what these are? "The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy,
peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance." That is heaven, and therefore the Apostle tells us that
he alone who "believeth that Jesus is the Christ," and only he, feels
that. What is it to believe that Jesus is the Christ?--That He is the
Anointed One, that His life is the anointed life, the only blessed
life, the blessed life divine for thirty years?--Yes, but if so, the
blessed Life still, continued throughout all eternity: unless you
believe that, you do not believe that Jesus is the Christ.

What is the blessedness that you expect?--to have the joys of earth
with the addition of the element of eternity? Men think that heaven is
to be a compensation for earthly loss: the saints are earthly-wretched
here, the children of this world are earthly-happy; but _that_, they
think, shall be all reversed--Lazarus, beyond the grave, shall have
the purple and the fine linen, and the splendour, and the houses, and
the lands which Dives had on earth: the one had them for time, the
other shall have them for eternity. That is the heaven that men
expect--this earth sacrificed _now_, in order that it may be
re-granted for _ever_.