Morning By Morning #9

I will be their God.

Jeremiah 31:33

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Dear Christian, what more could you possibly need? To be truly happy you desire something that will fully satisfy you. Is this promise not enough? If you could pour it into your own cup, would you not say, as David did, “‘My cup overflows’ (Ps. 23:5). I have more than I need”?

Once God fulfills this promise for you and becomes your God, will you not possess everything? Human desires are as insatiable as death itself, but He who is truly sufficient can fill them. Who can even measure the depth of human desire? Yet the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it. I ask you, are you not complete when God is yours? Do you desire anything but Him? Isn’t His all-sufficiency enough to satisfy you even when everything else fails?

Yet are you asking for more than just quiet satisfaction? Do you desire rapturous delight? Then come, dear soul, God is the maker of heaven itself, and music fit for heaven is your inheritance. Earthly music blown through the sweetest woodwinds or drawn from living strings could never produce a melody as sweet as this promise, “I will be their God.”

In these words is a deep sea of blessings—a shoreless ocean of delight. Come, bathe your spirit in it—swim as long as you like—but you will find no shore. Dive into its depths for all eternity, but you will find no bottom.

“I will be their God.” If this doesn’t brighten your eyes and make your heart beat with utter happiness, then your soul must assuredly be in a very unhealthy state.

Do you desire something for the future as well—not just present joy? Does your heart crave something for which you may exercise hope? What more could you ever hope for than the perfect fulfillment of this great promise: “I will be their God”?

This is the masterpiece of all of God’s promises. Truly recognizing it makes for a heaven on earth and a heaven above. Abide in the light of your Lord and always allow your soul to be ravished with His love.

Don’t miss God’s total provision for you in His promise, “I will be their God.” Live up to your privileges and rejoice “with an inexpressible and glorious joy” (1 Peter 1:8). “My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods” (Ps. 63:5).

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

It seems the entire world is searching for happiness, love, and fulfillment. Yet so many of us search for these things everywhere except where they truly can be found—in God alone. Even as believers in Him, we as Christians often have a warped view of God, seeing Him as somewhat stingy, carefully doling out His blessings—a little here and a little there. Yet the apostle Paul wrote, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Rom. 8:32).

In essence, Paul is asking us this question, “Isn’t it absurd to think that if God gave us the very life of His Son, that there is anything He would willingly withhold from us? After all, He has already given us the very best!”

Father, may I be content in You, and seek satisfaction—not in the things of the world, but in You alone.