Finding Eternal Joy, Satisfaction & Ecstasy In Christ.


Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that i desire beside thee. Psalm 73:25.


Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy and at thy righthand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11.


Inasmuch as the Lord is all that we have, He should also be all that we desire and find satisfaction in.
It is not enough to know and profess that He is all that we have(whom have i in heaven and on earth but thee); we ought to also come to know & have Him as our only desire and satisfaction, such that we desire none beside Him and find no satisfaction in anyother but Him.


Christ speaking in David declares in the sixteenth psalm: "Jehovah is my portion(my inheritance) and my cup:"(Psalm 16:5). What is the difference? My portion is what belongs to me, -what is mine, whether or not I enjoy it. My cup is what I actually appropriate, drink, enjoy or make my own.
With the Lord, indeed, His portion and His joy were one: Jehovah was the measure of both. He had nothing beside; He wanted nothing beside. These two things should be found, through grace, in the Christian also. For all it is true, that God is the measure of our portion, -we have no other. Oh, that it were equally true that He was the measure of our cup, -of our enjoyment!

How strange and sorrowful if for us both should not be realized! How bewildering that we should seek elsewhere what cannot be found, while we leave unexplored, the glories of a heavenly & eternal inheritance which is lavishly ours in Christ.
We covet a wilderness, while we neglect a paradise. "My people have committed two evils," says the Lord Himself; "they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have hewn out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water." (Jer 2:13.)

Forsaking the pure fountain of living water, we often go coveting the muddy waters of this life that can never satisfy.

"Covetousness is idolatry," says the apostle. But what is covetousness? It is just the craving of a heart unsatisfied with its portion, for which the thing it seeks/craves becomes the end that governs it; the lust becomes the god..."whose god is their belly" -the craving part -says the apostle again, "who mind earthly things." (Philippians 3:19.)

And "the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." 1st John 2:17.

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