Have we the right to be happy? Have we the right to be joyful? Can we have pleasure and still be a Christian? It has been written that as human beings we are always motivated to do things that give us the most pleasure. That we are indeed hedonists. Jonathan Edwards the great theologian made a very powerful argument for Christian Hedonism, basically that we as Christians pursue a life based on seeking pleasure, but that our source of pleasure is found in God. In today's new mystic language the best and strongest wine is found in the heart of God. Daddy's liquor cabinet is not only stocked with he finest, but that it is always open and we are invited to drink long and deeply. In the presence of God, is fullness of joy, the Psalmist tell us. At God's right hand there are pleasures for ever more. Who is at the Father's right hand? Jesus; and now we live in Him, and He lives in us. Is there any depression in the bosom of God? Is there any misery in the Kingdom? We owe the world a supernatural experience, and we also owe them a gift of joy.
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