An Incredible Portion

"The Lord is the portion of my inheritance" (Psa 16:5).

Satan once offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world. But Jesus has given us as believers far more than that. In Him, we have GOD HIMSELF. This world is a speck compared to the universe. And the universe is a speck compared to God, who is infinitely great and not even bound by time and space. What's anything in this world worth, then, compared with the greatness of having God Himself as our inheritance?

Contrast the inheritance/portion of the unbeliever and the believer:

"The wicked...men of the world, whose portion is in this life...They are satisfied with children, And leave their abundance to their babes." Their portion is tied to this life and is left behind when they die. BUT: "As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake" (Psa 17:13-15).

God Himself is our portion forever (Psa 73:25)--in heaven in the future, of course, but also right now ("You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living"; Psa 142:5).

I read this last night, from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening. It's "Morning, January 3." (Um, yes, I know it wasn't morning OR January 3...whatever...). This is long but worth reading.

Isaiah 49:8 “I will give thee for a covenant of the people.” Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Consider that word “God” and its infinity, and then meditate upon “perfect man” and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine—out of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has he power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Has he love? Well, there is not a drop of love in his heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, “It is mine.” Hath he justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for he will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you.And all that he has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father’s delight was upon him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God’s acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, he sets on thee now? For all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out, when through his stainless life he kept the law and made it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. Christ is in the covenant.