Morning, May 18
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
"In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are
complete in him."
Colossians 2:9, 10
All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All
the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that marvellous term may
comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the
attributes of Deity; but he has done all that can be done, for he has
made even his divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation.
His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and
infallibility, are all combined for our defence. Arise, believer, and
behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the
chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness,
how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless
his knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made the pillars of the
temple of salvation; and all, without diminution of their infinity, are
covenanted to us as our perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of
the Saviour's heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of
might, every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine
knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours, and shall
be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in his adorable character as
the Son of God, is by himself made over to us most richly to enjoy. His
wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our
protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our
solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens
the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the
hidden treasures. "All, all, all are yours," saith he, "be ye satisfied
with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord." Oh! how sweet thus
to behold Jesus, and to call upon him with the certain confidence that
in seeking the interposition of his love or power, we are but asking
for that which he has already faithfully promised.