What a comfort it is to have God as your portion! This portion is not in toys and trifles, but in the blessed, and boundless God. It is a portion so precious that none of the greatest mathematicians e...  Read More

O friend, the portions in the world are like candles that are consumed by use, and then go out in a stink, compared to God your eternal portion! God is yours forever and ever. O sweet word, ‘forever'!...  Read More

As a merchant in London may import horses from Barbary, spices of Egypt, wares of Alexandria, silks of Persia, and embroideries of Turkey, so may you, if God is your portion, import the finest bread t...  Read More

Earthly portions are limited in their nature and the comfort they yield. Health is better than sickness, but does not help poverty. Honour is better than disgrace, but does not help against pain. Mone...  Read More

God is a sanctifying and enabling portion. The things of the world cannot advance the soul in the least. Like shadows that are ever so long, the body is not taller. Men in high places are the same men...  Read More

The nature of divine holiness is freedom from all evil. God is separate from every shade of evil. He acts according to the likeness of his own excellence and abhors everything contrary to it. There is...  Read More

This verse is one of the loftiest descriptions of the majesty of God in the whole of Scripture. The holiness of God is his glory and crown. It is the blessedness of his nature. It renders him glorious...  Read More

There is much in our Lord's pantry that will satisfy his children, and much wine in his cellar that will quench all their thirst. Hunger for him until he fills you. He is pleased with the importunity ...  Read More

You may not know what the Lord is doing in a particular circumstance, but you will know hereafter. Let Christ know of your heavy cares. Let him bear all. Dear brother, do not become weary of your Mast...  Read More

We must learn to spin out comfort, peace, joy, and communion with Christ in our troubles. Grace grows best in winter. Crosses are a part of our communion with Christ. There is no sweeter fellowship th...  Read More

If your Lord calls you to suffering, do not be dismayed, for he will provide a deeper portion of Christ in your suffering. The softest pillow will be placed under your head though you must set your ba...  Read More

The wicked may have many comforts and sill he is cursed. The godly may have many crosses, yet still he is blessed. If the wicked has success and his path is smooth, yet there is still a curse upon him...  Read More

God is a satisfying portion. This world may fill a man, but can never satisfy him. Most have too much, but no one has enough. They are like ships that carry a burden heavy enough to sink it, but with ...  Read More

If you can see God in creation, the plants, birds, minerals, and beasts, what thoughts might you have, if God were your portion. Look at the ocean, the storms and tempests, the innumerable fish, both ...  Read More

Why would men choose the world for their portion instead of God? Because of their ignorance of the great worth of this object. The devil courts man for his soul with the brutish pleasures of sin. The ...  Read More

A Christian in his saddest condition can enjoy God as his portion. You, who have chosen the world for your portion, have you not read what a perishing portion it is? I offer you today a portion worthy...  Read More

The godly are blessed not only in heaven but as they travel to glory. This is a paradox to flesh and blood; blessed while being reproached and maligned? No matter how sense and reason cast their vote,...  Read More

‘Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3). Christ does not begin his sermon with commands and threatenings, but his lips dropped as the honeycomb with promises and blessings. His heavenly doctrine ...  Read More

Mercy is the nature of God. He is, by his own inclination, a most gracious and merciful God, disposed and ready to forgive. His mercy is included in his purpose, and in the resolutions of his will. It...  Read More

Many have shot wide of the mark in seeking blessedness. It cannot be found in worldly things, but how ready is man to place happiness in them. The tree of blessedness does not grow in an earthly parad...  Read More

We know the kingdom of grace has been set up in our hearts by the change wrought in the soul. There is a new nature, light in the mind, order in the affections, a pliable will, and tenderness in the c...  Read More

Laying a deep apprehension of God's nature increases the peace of conscience and gives a measure of the joy of the Holy Spirit. Under the law, God revealed himself in grace (Exod. 34:6-7). Also, 'As I...  Read More

What is implied in God being our God? It is comprehensive of all good things. He is our strong tower, our fountain of living water, and our salvation. It implies the sweetest of relations. He is our F...  Read More

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence. Though reason and Scripture declare it, we cannot conceive it. He is not measured by time nor ...  Read More