A
Full Meal
And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some
left over. Ruth
2:14
Whenever
we are privileged to eat the bread that Jesus gives, we are, like
Ruth, satisfied with a full and sweet provision. When Jesus is the
host, no guest goes empty from the table. Our head
is satisfied with the precious truth that Christ reveals; our heart
is content with Jesus as the altogether lovely object of affection;
our hope is
satisfied, for who do we have in heaven but Jesus? And our desire is
fulfilled, for what more can we wish for than to "gain Christ
and be found in him"?1
Jesus fills our conscience
until 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 still to do.
Later in the devotional he
writes:
Yes, there are graces to
which we have not attained, places of fellowship nearer to Christ
that we have not reached, and heights of communion that our feet have
not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets left.
From
Truth for Life, a Bible-teaching ministry of Alistair Begg
My prayer - May we allow this truth to permeate us today: Only the Lord can satisfy us and may we continue to search the depths, heights, widths and lengths of our Lord's graces and resources.
1 comment:
Amen Mike, This is our normal Christian life, isn't it? Coming to Him, sitting at His feet and taking Him as our bread, our supply, not just to meet our needs, but that we would eat until we are overflowing (some left over) so we can then serve Him to others. This is our destiny, to live in Him and to overflow Him into all of our life situations. We turn from our mind to our spirit, exercising our spirit, and He, our Head can as you said permeate us, go into all the rooms our heart, and purge out anything that doesn't match Him, and fill us with His life.
I enjoyed this footnote regarding the book of Ruth: "Ruth is an appendix to the book of Judges, contemporary with the first half of Judges. Judges is a book of Israel's miserable history, dark and foul; Ruth is the record of a couple's excellent story, bright and aromatic. The main character in this story is like a lily growing out of brambles and a bright star in the dark night." She typifies the church.
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