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Friday, November 16, 2007
MORNING:
"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."
EVENING:
"Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty."
-- Isaiah 33:17
The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with
superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his
transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as
the eternal Surety, and the fulness of his grace which shines in all
his offices, the more truly will you see the King in his beauty. Be
much in such outlooks. Long more and more to see Jesus. Meditation and
contemplation are often like windows of agate, and gates of carbuncle,
through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to
the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could
have seen him if we had lived in the days of his flesh. Would that our
conversation were more in heaven, and that we were more taken up with
the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More
meditation, and the beauty of the King would flash upon us with more
resplendence. Beloved, it is very probable that we shall have such a
sight of our glorious King as we never had before, when we come to die.
Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy waters, and
have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, and heard him say, "It
is I, be not afraid." Ah, yes! when the tenement begins to shake, and
the clay falls away, we see Christ through the rifts, and between the
rafters the sunlight of heaven comes streaming in. But if we want to
see face to face the "King in his beauty" we must go to heaven for the
sight, or the King must come here in person. O that he would come on
the wings of the wind! He is our Husband, and we are widowed by his
absence; he is our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without
him. Thick veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life:
when shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected
day, begin!
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