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Morning and Evening

November 16, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." — Lamentations 3:24 · KJV

It is not "the Lord is partly my portion," nor "the Lord is in my portion," but He Himself makes up the whole sum 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 only, nor His love, nor His covenant, but Yahweh Himself. He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him for ours. True, the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or we should never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing: loved of my God, for Him again with love intense I burn; chosen of Him before 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 he is satisfied, he soon wakes to find there is still something beyond, and at once the leech in his heart cries, "Give, give!" But all we can wish for is 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 drink of the river of His pleasures. Our faith spreads her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love, as to her proper dwelling place. "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage." Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show the world that we are a happy and blessed people, and so lead them to exclaim, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."