He Who Can Truly Say This, Is a God

"The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore

I will hope in Him." Lamentations 3:24

God is every believer's portion.

Riches are not every believer's portion--but

God is every believer's portion.

Liberty and freedom are not every believer's

portion--but God is every believer's portion.

Honor and applause are not every believer's

portion--but God is every believer's portion.

Prosperity and success are not every believer's

portion--but God is every believer's portion.

God is a universal portion. God is a portion that includes

all other portions. God has Himself the good, the sweet,

the profit, the pleasure, the delight, the comfort--of all

portions. There is no good in wife, child, father, friend,

husband, health, wealth, wit, wisdom, learning, honor--

but is all found in God.

There is in God an immense fullness, an ocean of goodness,

and an overplus of all that graciousness, sweetness, and

kindness, that is to be found in all other things or creatures.

All the goodlinesses and all the glories of all the creatures

are eminently and perfectly to be enjoyed in God. The

cream, the good, the sweet, the beauty, and the glory

of every creature, and of every thing--centers in God.

God is a universal excellency. All the particular excellencies

that are scattered up and down among angels, men, and all

other creatures--are virtually and transcendently in Him. He

has them all in His own being. All creatures in heaven and

earth have only their own particular excellencies; but God

has in Himself the very quintessence of all excellencies!

The creatures have but drops of that sea, that ocean, which

is in God. They have but their parts of that power, wisdom,

goodness, righteousness, holiness, faithfulness, loveliness,

desirableness, sweetness, graciousness, beauty, and glory

--which is in God. One has this part, and another has that;

one has this particular excellency, and another has that.

But the whole of all these parts and excellencies are to

be found in God alone!

There is none but that God, who is the universal good,

who can truly say, "All power, all wisdom, all strength,

all knowledge, all goodness, all sweetness, all beauty,

all glory, all excellency, etc., dwells in Me!" He who

can truly say this, is a God; and he who cannot,

is no God.

All the excellencies that are scattered up and down in the

creatures, are united into one excellency in God; but there

is not one excellency in God that is fully scattered up and

down among all the creatures. There is a glorious union of

all excellencies in God--and only in God.

Now this God, who is such a universal good, and who has

all excellencies dwelling in Himself, says to the believer,

"I am yours, and all that I have is yours!"

Every believer has the whole God wholly; he has all

of God for his portion. God is not a believer's portion

in a limited sense, nor in a comparative sense--but

in an absolute sense.

God Himself is theirs.

He is wholly theirs.

He is only theirs.

He is always theirs.

Our property reaches to all that God is, and to

all that God has. He has all--who has the

Possessor of all.

To be able to say, "God is mine!" is more than

if I were able to say that ten thousand worlds,

yes, and as many heavens, are mine!

Oh what a spring of joy and comfort should

this be to all the saints!

"This God is our God forever and ever!" Ps. 48:14