Monday, April 9, 2012

All-Sufficient!

Octavius Winslow, "The Christian's Joint Heirship":

It is in the heart of our God to give us the chief and the best.

Had there been a greater, and a better, and a sweeter, and a more satisfying portion than Himself--then that portion would have been ours. But since there is not, nor can be, a greater than Himself--the love, the everlasting, changeless love that He bears to us, constrains Him to give Himself as our God, our Portion, our All.

And have we not experienced Him to be God all-sufficient?

Have we ever found a lack in Him?

Oh no! God is all-sufficient, and no arid wilderness, and no dreary land have we experienced Him to be.

There is in Him. . .
an all-sufficiency of love to comfort us;
an all-sufficiency of strength to uphold us;
an all-sufficiency of power to protect us;
an all-sufficiency of good to satisfy us;
an all-sufficiency of wisdom to guide us;
an all-sufficiency of glory to reward us;
an all-sufficiency of bliss to make us happy here, and happy to all eternity! 

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Surpassing Glory

There is an ever fresh, ever full, sweetness in heaven's precious Lamb! Oh, this precious truth! It is gospel wine to my poor soul! We have such a Christ that we little think how far His glories and His matchless love surpass what we have every yet conceived. We do not make half enough of Him-heaven's brightest gem, and richest treasure! Oh, that the precious Comforter may reveal Him more and more-that we may count all other things but filth and dross. 
"The Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ, the Letters of Ruth Bryan"