Spurgeon: November AM
* 11/16/AM
"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."