Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Thursday November 16, 2017 |
Morning Time: 6:48 AM PST
"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." --Lamentations 3:24
It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in
my portion"; but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance.
Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The
Lord is my portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant,
but Jehovah Himself. He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him
for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or
else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called
according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing--
"Lov'd of my God for Him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of Him ere time began,
I choose Him in return."
The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and
if God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all-sufficient for us. It is not
easy to satisfy man's desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he
wakes to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the
horse-leech in his heart cries, "Give, give." But all that we can wish for is to
be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, "Whom have I in heaven but Thee?
and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee." Well may we "delight
ourselves in the Lord" who makes us to drink of the river of His pleasures. Our
faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine
love as to her proper dwelling-place. "The lines have fallen to us in pleasant
places; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let
us show to the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce
them to exclaim, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."
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