Sarah Edwards on Fire
Sarah Edwards on Fire
"There is nothing on earth that I desire besides You." Psalm 73:25
On this day, July 12, in the year of our Lord 1723, seventeen year old Sarah Pierpont married twenty-three year old Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan had been attracted to her when she was only thirteen. They would become not only marriage partners but soul mates who frequently encountered the manifest presence of Christ together. They loved to pray together and honor Christ together.
She wrote in her journal of her deep intimacy with Christ, “I was entirely swallowed up in God, as my only portion, and His honor and glory was the object of my supreme desire and delight… This lively sense of the beauty and excellency of divine things continued during the morning, accompanied with peculiar sweetness and delight. To my own imagination, my soul seemed to have gone out of me to God and Christ in heaven, and to have very little relation to my body. God and Christ were so present to me and so near me, that I seemed removed from myself… I never felt such an entire emptiness of self-love, or any regard to any private, selfish interest of my own… The glory of God seemed the all, and in all, and to swallow up every wish and desire of my heart.”
May the hunger for God’s presence in Sarah Pierpont Edwards stir in you a hunger for more.
Lord Jesus, there is nothing on earth I desire besides You. May your honor and glory be the objects of my supreme desire and delight.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
"There is nothing on earth that I desire besides You." Psalm 73:25
On this day, July 12, in the year of our Lord 1723, seventeen year old Sarah Pierpont married twenty-three year old Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan had been attracted to her when she was only thirteen. They would become not only marriage partners but soul mates who frequently encountered the manifest presence of Christ together. They loved to pray together and honor Christ together.
She wrote in her journal of her deep intimacy with Christ, “I was entirely swallowed up in God, as my only portion, and His honor and glory was the object of my supreme desire and delight… This lively sense of the beauty and excellency of divine things continued during the morning, accompanied with peculiar sweetness and delight. To my own imagination, my soul seemed to have gone out of me to God and Christ in heaven, and to have very little relation to my body. God and Christ were so present to me and so near me, that I seemed removed from myself… I never felt such an entire emptiness of self-love, or any regard to any private, selfish interest of my own… The glory of God seemed the all, and in all, and to swallow up every wish and desire of my heart.”
May the hunger for God’s presence in Sarah Pierpont Edwards stir in you a hunger for more.
Lord Jesus, there is nothing on earth I desire besides You. May your honor and glory be the objects of my supreme desire and delight.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
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