God a Satisfying Portion.
Do we desire affection? Who can measure the rich treasures of that heart that spans the universe in one grasp of its benevolence, and that has promised to withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly? Who can estimate that affection that knows no change or fickleness; that is permanent as God's own being, untouched by the chills of earth, undestroyed by the feebleness of our love to him, and undiminished by the long lapse of time or eternity? Do we desire riches? He offers us “an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away.” Do we covet power? “To him that overcometh,” says the Saviour, “I will grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” Do we desire station and rank, and honor and influence? He will make us kings and priests unto God. Do we desire rest from the pains, sorrows, and troubles of life? “There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.” And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Do we long for freedom from sin? There shall in no wise enter into that city anything that defileth. Its holy gates forever bar pollution, sin, and shame. Do we desire a blessed place of abode as our future home? “In our Father's house are many mansions” and there shall be no more curse, and the city shall have “no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” And this is an abode of bliss that may be ours forever for he that hath gone to prepare a place for us, will come again, and receive us unto himself.