Evening, March 19
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Ruth 2:14
"And she did eat, and was sufficed, and left."
Ruth 2:14
Whenever we are privileged to eat of the bread which Jesus gives, we
are, like Ruth, satisfied with the full and sweet repast. When Jesus is
the host, no guest goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied
with the precious truth which Christ reveals; our heart is content with
Jesus, as the altogether lovely object of affection; our hope is
satisfied, for whom have we in heaven but Jesus? and our desire is
satiated, for what can we wish for more than "to know Christ and to be
found in him?" Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace;
our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of his teachings; our
memory with recollections of what he has done, and our imagination with
the prospects of what he is yet to do. As Ruth was "sufficed, and
left," so is it with us. We have had deep draughts; we have thought
that we could take in all of Christ; but when we have done our best we
have had to leave a vast remainder. We have sat at the table of the
Lord's love, and said, "Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I
am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin
away;" but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit
to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love,
and found that there was a redundance of spiritual meat remaining.
There are certain sweet things in the Word of God which we have not
enjoyed yet, and which we are obliged to leave for awhile; for we are
like the disciples to whom Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say
unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." Yes, there are graces to which
we have not attained; places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we
have not reached; and heights of communion which our feet have not
climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of fragments
left. Let us magnify the liberality of our glorious Boaz.