Paradise of God
F.W. Grant
Eden, the garden of earthly delight, fades when compared with a far more blessed reality, "the Paradise of God" (Revelation 2:7). The trees and rivers and precious things of Eden are images and types of beauty that are too little understood. This is to our shame, for the fruits of the tree of life await the Ephesian overcomer of Revelation 2:7--the child of God who amid general decay and departure of heart from Christ, holds fast in his heart the freshness of first, new-born love. A truer devotedness of heart to Him would give us even now a fuller knowledge and a richer enjoyment of what the Paradise of God will be.
He who has the "keys of death and hell" has also, we may be sure, the key of Paradise as well.