Morning, June 30

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them."

  John 17:22

   Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given
   us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a
   universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content
   until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising
   grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the
   table of his mercy; but he will do nothing by halves, he makes us sit
   with him and share the feast. Had he given us some small pension from
   his royal coffers, we should have had cause to love him eternally; but
   no, he will have his bride as rich as himself, and he will not have a
   glory or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content
   with less than making us joint-heirs with himself, so that we might
   have equal possessions. He has emptied all his estate into the coffers
   of the Church, and hath all things common with his redeemed. There is
   not one room in his house the key of which he will withhold from his
   people. He gives them full liberty to take all that he hath to be their
   own; he loves them to make free with his treasure, and appropriate as
   much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fulness of his
   all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes.
   Christ hath put the flagon of his love and grace to the believer's lip,
   and bidden him drink on forever; for could he drain it, he is welcome
   to do so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink
   abundantly, for it is all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can
   heaven or earth afford?


   "When I stand before the throne

   Dressed in beauty not my own;

   When I see thee as thou art,

   Love thee with unsinning heart;

   Then, Lord, shall I fully know--

   Not till then--how much I owe."