**This was shared with me and I liked it so much I thought I'd share it with you. I pray it truly blessed your day as it has mine:)
“Not only is the triune God more honored by redemption than He was dishonored by the defection of His creatures, but His people also are greatly the gainers. That too magnifies the divine wisdom. It would have been wonderful indeed had they been merely restored to their original state; but it is far more wonderful that they should be brought to a much higher state of blessedness—that the fall should be the occasion of their exaltation!
Their sin deserved eternal wretchedness, yet everlasting bliss is their portion.
They are now favored with a greater manifestation of the glory of God and a fuller discovery of His love than they would have had otherwise, and in those two things their happiness principally consists.
They are brought into a much closer and endearing relation to God.
They are now not merely holy creatures but heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
The Son having taken their nature upon Him, they have become His “brethren,” members of His body, His spouse.
They are thereby provided with more powerful motives and inducements to love and serve Him than they had in their unfallen condition.
The more of God’s love we apprehend, the more we love Him in return. Throughout eternity the knowledge of God’s love in giving His dear Son to and for us, and Christ’s dying in our stead, will fix our hearts upon Him in a manner which His favors to Adam never could have done.”
~~A.W. Pink
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