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The Knowledge of God Covers the Earth, December 31
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:9
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As we enter the kingdom of God, there to spend eternity, the trials
and the difficulties and the perplexities that we have had here will sink
into insignificance. Our life will measure with the life of God.
There, immortal minds will contemplate with never-failing delight
the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. There
will be no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to forgetfulness of God. Every
faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquirement
of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There
the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations
reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still there will arise new
heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend,
fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body.
All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s
redeemed. Unfettered by mortality, they wing their tireless flight to
worlds afar.... With unutterable delight the children of earth enter into
the joy and the wisdom of unfallen beings. They share the treasures
of knowledge and understanding gained through ages upon ages in
contemplation of God’s handiwork.... As Jesus opens before them
the riches of redemption, and the amazing achievements in the great
controversy with Satan, the hearts of the ransomed thrill with more
fervent devotion, and with more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of
gold; and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands
of voices unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise....
One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation.
From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout
the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest
world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty
and perfect joy, declare that God is love.
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