Perfect loveliness

In the heavenly marriage, the bride to the Lamb of God will one day be perfected to perfect loveliness. Christ will return to be glorified in all the saints who have believed. The glory of God will be her(the bride's) brilliance. Those whose names are written in the Lambs book of life will partake in the marriage supper of the Lamb, on that glorious day when the old has passed away and the new has come.

I am disgusted by my sin and oh, how I wait for the day when it will be no more and all temptation lost with complete adoration and treasure of the holy One. Occurrences in my life have led me to become ardently interested in and delight in the thoughts of heaven, where believers glory in the presence of God, where no tears, no death, no mourning, no crying, no pain exists. All the things of earth have passed away for them, as it has for one most precious to me. I ponder the loveliness she has met and find myself in utter awe and desire of knowing this manifestation of perfect love with no hindrances.

"When all the common fruits of the Spirit cease with respect to particular persons at death, and with respect to the whole church at the end of the world, while charity shall still remain in heaven, and there the spirit of God shall be poured forth and manifested in perfect love in every heart to all eternity...the heavenly state of the church is distinguished from its earthly state, as it is that state which God has designed especially for such a communication of his Holy Spirit, and in which it shall be given perfectly, whereas, in the present state of the church, it is given with great imperfection. And it is also a state in which this holy love or charity shall be, as it were, the only gift or fruit of the spirit, as being the most perfect and glorious of all, and which, being brought to perfection, renders all other gifts that God was wont to bestow on his church on earth, needless...Heaven is a part of creation that God has built for this end, to be the place of his glorious presence, and it is his abode forever; and here will he dwell, and gloriously manifest himself to all eternity. And this renders heaven a world of love; for God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light. The apostle tells us that 'God is love'; and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love. Seeing he is an all-sufficient being, it follows that he is full and overflowing, an inexhaustible fountain of love. And in that he is an unchangeable and eternal being, he is an unchangeable and eternal fountain of love...There, in heaven, this infinite fountain of love - this eternal Three in One - is set open without any obstacle to hinder access to it, as it flows forever. There this glorious God is manifested, and shines forth, in full glory, in beams of love. And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love!"

---Jonathan Edwards