Unlock the Storehouse!
Unto me, who
am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach
among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Eph. 3:8.
In the Word of
God there are rich mines of truth that we may spend our whole lifetime in
exploring, and yet we shall find that we have only begun to view their precious
stores. . . . There are unsearchable riches for us. It will take us all
eternity to comprehend the riches of the glory of God and of Jesus Christ. . .
.
Christ has said:
"If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37).
Have you exhausted the fountain? No, for it is inexhaustible. Just as soon as
you feel your need, you may drink, and drink again. The fountain is always
full. And when you have once drunk of that fountain you will not be seeking to
quench your thirst from the broken cisterns of this world; you will not be
studying how you can find the most pleasure, amusement, fun, and frolic. No,
because you have been drinking from the stream which makes glad the city of
God. Then your joy will be full, for Christ will be in you.
Jehovah
Immanuel--He "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge," in whom dwells "all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily" (Col. 2:3, 9)--to be brought into sympathy with Him, to know Him,
to possess Him, as the heart opens more and more to receive His attributes; to
know His love and power, to possess the unsearchable riches of Christ, to
comprehend more and more "what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and
height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all the fulness of God" (Eph. 3:18, 19)--"this is the
heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith
the Lord" (Isa. 54:17).
There is no need
for us to hunger, there is no need for us to thirst, while the storehouse of
heaven is open for us and the key is given into our possession. What is the
key? Faith, which is the gift of God. Unlock the storehouse; take of its rich
treasures.
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