God, Part 2

This is a special season for God to show his love to such a soul, if ever before or after, an opportunity, such as does not occur, neither before, while it was in the body; nor after, when it is united to the body again, at the Resurrection: if ever therefore he means to show a respect to a poor soul, which is his so near kindred and alliance, it must be done now. We read in (Psalm 73:26), My flesh and my heart fails (as at death to be sure it does) but God is the strength of my heart, both in this life and at death to support me [and my portion for ever] in the life to come without any interruption or vacant space of time, as that [ever] imports: and that David spoke this with an eye to the Glory to come, when heart, and flesh, and all in this world he foresaw would fail him, is evident by what he had immediately meditated in the words before, verse 24. You shall guide me with your counsel, so in this life, and afterwards (that being ended) shall receive me to glory. The contemplation of which makes him cry out again, verse 25, Whom have I in heaven but you? For all things else will fail me one day, when my flesh utterly fails me also: and there is none upon earth (where he had at present many comforts and comforters) in comparison of you. You see God is the portion of the whole of his time, even for ever, as verse 26, and his estate in heaven and earth divide that time and portion between them, and no middle state between both, but when the one ceases the other begins, for between them two must be the [for ever] and when all fails him which he had on earth, then God alone becomes his happiness in heaven. But this only in general shows what God is and will be to a soul in this condition.