“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” — Lamentations 3:24

It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant, but Jehovah Himself. He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can…

sing —

“Lov’d of my God for Him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of Him ere time began,

I choose Him in return.”

The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if God is
all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all-sufficient for us. It is not easy to
satisfy man’s desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes
to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the
horse-leech in his heart cries, “Give, give.” But all that we can wish for is
to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, “Whom have I in heaven
but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.” Well
may we “delight ourselves in the Lord” who makes us to drink of the river
of His pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle
into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling-place. “The lines
have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage.” Let us
rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are a happy
and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, “We will go with
you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

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Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen