Evening, March 4
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Psalms 36:8
"They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house."
Psalm 36:8
Sheba's queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon's table. She
lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day; and she
marvelled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the
royal board. But what is this to the hospitalities of the God of grace?
Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed; hungry and thirsty,
they bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of
them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all,
enough for evermore. Though the host that feed at Jehovah's table is
countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat.
Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the
Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads his
table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many
years; not for many years only, but for generation after generation.
Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy's
banquet are satisfied, nay, more "abundantly satisfied;" and that not
with ordinary fare, but with fatness, the peculiar fatness of God's own
house; and such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all
those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah's
wings. I once thought if I might but get the broken meat at God's back
door of grace I should be satisfied; like the woman who said, "The dogs
eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table;" but no child of
God is ever served with scraps and leavings; like Mephibosheth, they
all eat from the king's own table. In matters of grace, we all have
Benjamin's mess--we all have ten times more than we could have
expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed
at the marvellous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to
enjoy.