Evening, May 13

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"Thou art my portion, O Lord."

  Psalm 119:57

   Look at thy possessions, O believer, and compare thy portion with the
   lot of thy fellowmen. Some of them have their portion in the field;
   they are rich, and their harvests yield them a golden increase; but
   what are harvests compared with thy God, who is the God of harvests?
   What are bursting granaries compared with him, who is the Husbandman,
   and feeds thee with the bread of heaven? Some have their portion in the
   city; their wealth is abundant, and flows to them in constant streams,
   until they become a very reservoir of gold; but what is gold compared
   with thy God? Thou couldst not live on it; thy spiritual life could not
   be sustained by it. Put it on a troubled conscience, and could it allay
   its pangs? Apply it to a desponding heart, and see if it could stay a
   solitary groan, or give one grief the less? But thou hast God, and in
   him thou hast more than gold or riches ever could buy. Some have their
   portion in that which most men love--applause and fame; but ask
   thyself, is not thy God more to thee than that? What if a myriad
   clarions should be loud in thine applause, would this prepare thee to
   pass the Jordan, or cheer thee in prospect of judgment? No, there are
   griefs in life which wealth cannot alleviate; and there is the deep
   need of a dying hour, for which no riches can provide. But when thou
   hast God for thy portion, thou hast more than all else put together. In
   him every want is met, whether in life or in death. With God for thy
   portion thou art rich indeed, for he will supply thy need, comfort thy
   heart, assuage thy grief, guide thy steps, be with thee in the dark
   valley, and then take thee home, to enjoy him as thy portion forever.
   "I have enough," said Esau; this is the best thing a worldly man can
   say, but Jacob replies, "I have all things," which is a note too high
   for carnal minds.