Spurgeon: May PM
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"Thou art my portion, O Lord."
--Psalm 119:57
Look at thy possessions, O believer, and compare thy portion
with the lot of thy fellowmen. Some of them have their portion
in the field; they are rich, and their harvests yield them a
golden increase; but what are harvests compared with thy God,
who is the God of harvests? What are bursting granaries compared
with Him, who is the Husbandman, and feeds thee with the bread
of heaven? Some have their portion in the city; their wealth is
abundant, and flows to them in constant streams, until they
become a very reservoir of gold; but what is gold compared with
thy God? Thou couldst not live on it; thy spiritual life could
not be sustained by it. Put it on a troubled conscience, and
could it allay its pangs? Apply it to a desponding heart, and
see if it could stay a solitary groan, or give one grief the
less? But thou hast God, and in Him thou hast more than gold or
riches ever could buy. Some have their portion in that which
most men love--applause and fame; but ask thyself, is not thy
God more to thee than that? What if a myriad clarions should be
loud in thine applause, would this prepare thee to pass the
Jordan, or cheer thee in prospect of judgment? No, there are
griefs in life which wealth cannot alleviate; and there is the
deep need of a dying hour, for which no riches can provide. But
when thou hast God for thy portion, thou hast more than all
else put together. In Him every want is met, whether in life or
in death. With God for thy portion thou art rich indeed, for He
will supply thy need, comfort thy heart, assuage thy grief,
guide thy steps, be with thee in the dark valley, and then take
thee home, to enjoy Him as thy portion for ever. "I have
enough," said Esau; this is the best thing a worldly man can
say, but Jacob replies, "I have all things," which is a note too
high for carnal minds.