Fullness and emptiness, joy and sadness, ecstasy and despair; both will always continue to be essential ingredients for this side of Christian life. The purpose of one is to whet our appetite for higher things than the toys we play with, and the purpose of the other is to discourage us from satisfying that appetite with anything in this life.
This is the paradigm that we were born into, that we breathe every day, such that we cannot even imagine one without the other. Can it really be our destiny to be given ever-increasing joy without sadness? Does such a thing even exist? If so, and if it is our destiny, then it must be that our present selves cannot even fathom it. We must be transformed, putting off the old self and putting on a new humanity, one that is united with the presence of the divine, made possible by the only Mediator who himself is God and man. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
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