Communion with God

Christ delights exceedingly in his saints. His heart is glad in us, without sorrow. And every day whilst we live is his wedding-day.

Eye the Father as love; look not on him as an always lowering father, but as one most kind and tender. Let us look on him by faith, as one that hath had thoughts of kindness towards us from everlasting.

Without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.

There is no man whatever, that hath any want in reference unto the things of God, but Christ will be unto him that which he wants: I speak of those who are given him of his Father. Is he dead? Christ is life. Is he weak?…

Having manifested that the saints hold peculiar fellowship with the Lord Jesus, it nextly follows that we show wherein it is that they have this peculiar communion with him. Now, this is in grace. This is everywhere ascr…

Many dark and disturbing thoughts are apt to arise in this thing. Few can carry up their hearts and minds to this height by faith, as to rest their souls in the love of the Father; they live below it, in the troublesome…

Our peculiar communion with the Father is in love, — free, undeserved, and eternal love. This the Father peculiarly fixes upon the saints; this they are immediately to eye in him, to receive of him, and to make such retu…

The Father doth it by the way of original authority; the Son by the way of communicating from a purchased treasury; the Holy Spirit by the way of immediate efficacy.

For through Christ we have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Our access unto God (wherein we have communion with him) is through Christ, in the Spirit, and unto the Father; — the persons being here considered as enga…

That the saints have distinct communion with the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit (that is, distinctly with the Father, and distinctly with the Son, and distinctly with the Holy Spirit), must, in the first place,…

Our communion, then, with God consisteth in his communication of himself unto us, with our returnal unto him of that which he requireth and accepteth, flowing from that union which in Jesus Christ we have with him.

By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man hath any communion with God. He is light, we darkness; and what communion hath light with darkness? He is life, we are dead, — he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreemen…

Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. This being so earnestly and directly asserted by the apostle, we may boldly follow him with our affirmation, — namely, That the saints of God have c…

So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.

Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the i…

The love of God is like himself 'equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves 'unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, t…

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.