March 19th Evening

0:00You are listening to Morning and Evening, a daily devotional work by Reverend Charles Spurgeon. This reading is brought to you by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College, where you can pursue a gospel-centered degree, both on campus or online. Learn more at mbts.edu slash apply. Good evening. Today is March the 19th. And she did eat and was suffice and left. Ruth 2 verse 14. Whenever we are privileged to eat of the bread which Jesus gives, we are like Ruth, satisfied with the full and sweet repost. When Jesus is the host, no guest

1:03goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied with the precious truth which Christ reveals. Our heart is content with Jesus as the altogether lovely object of affection. Our hope is satisfied for whom have we in heaven but Jesus. And our desire is satiated for what can we wish for more than to know Christ and be found in Him. Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace. Our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of His teachings, our memory with recollections of what He has done, and our imagination with the prospects of what He is yet to do. As Ruth was suffice and left, so is it with us. We have had deep drafts. We have thought that we could take in all of Christ. But when we have done our best, we have had to leave of our remainder. We have sat at the table of the Lord's love and said,

2:07nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me. I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away. But we have had our sin removed and found that there was merit to spare. We have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love and found that there was a redundance of spiritual meat remaining. There are certain sweet things in the word of God which we have not enjoyed yet and which we have lied to leave for a while. We are like the disciples to whom Jesus said, I have yet many things to say unto you, but He cannot bear them now. Yes, there are graces to which we have not attained, places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we have not reached, and heights of communion which our feet have not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of fragments left. Let us magnify the liberality of our glorious woes. May your house be filled with God's presence,

3:17his peace, his protection and his favor even as you rest this night.