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"And she did eat, and was sufficed, and left."
--Ruth 2:14
Whenever we are privileged to eat of the bread which Jesus
gives, we are, like Ruth, satisfied with the full and sweet
repast. When Jesus is the host no guest goes empty from the
table. Our head is satisfied with the precious truth which
Christ reveals; our heart is content with Jesus, as the
altogether lovely object of affection; our hope is satisfied,
for whom have we in heaven but Jesus? and our desire is
satiated, for what can we wish for more than "to know Christ and
to be found in Him"? Jesus fills our conscience till it is at
perfect peace; our judgment with persuasion of the certainty
of His teachings; our memory with recollections of what He has
done, and our imagination with the prospects of what He is yet
to do. As Ruth was "sufficed, and left ," so is it with us. We
have had deep draughts; we have thought that we could take in
all of Christ; but when we have done our best we have had to
leave a vast remainder. We have sat at the table of the Lord's
love, and said, "Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I
am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash
my sin away;" but we have had our sin removed, and found that
there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the
feast of sacred love, and found that there was a redundance of
spiritual meat remaining. There are certain sweet things in the
Word of God which we have not enjoyed yet, and which we are
obliged to leave for awhile; for we are like the disciples to
whom Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now." Yes, there are graces to which we have
not attained; places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we
have not reached; and heights of communion which our feet have
not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of
fragments left. Let us magnify the liberality of our glorious
Boaz.