Our Exceeding Great Reward ~ Christ JESUS Himself!

"...as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." -II Corinthians 6:10 [KJV]


My soul, hast thou learnt this holy science? There are three

blessed lessons the Holy Ghost teacheth on this ground. As,

first, the believer is thoroughly emptied of himself. Art thou thus taught of God? Hast thou been led to see, to feel, to know, to be convinced that, after all thine attainments, after all thy long standing in the school of Jesus, thou hast nothing, canst do nothing, art worse than nothing, and, literally, hast no more in thyself now to recommend thee to Jesus, than the first moment thou didst hear of His name? This is to have nothing; this is to be poor in spirit.


Secondly , dost thou possess all things in Jesus? Yes, if so be thou art living out of thyself wholly upon Him; and how is this known? Nothing more evident. When a sense of my emptiness endears to me His fulness; my poverty, His riches; my weakness, His strength; my sins, His righteousness; my guilt, His blood; I truly possess all things, as far as I improve what Jesus is to His people, and rest upon Him and the blessed fruits of His salvation, as God the Father designed Him, Who hath made Him wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption to His people.


And there is a third precious lesson the Holy Ghost teacheth

to the poor that have nothing, and yet possess all things;

namely, so to possess Jesus Himself that He may not only make His poor ones rich in His riches, but be Himself their treasure; so to supply them not only with what they need, but to be Himself their fulness; not on to open to them light and life, but to be Himself both their light and life; so to impart to them salvation as to shew them that He is Himself their salvation; and, in short, so to give them present peace, and the

assurance of everlasting happiness in His blood and

righteousness, as to give them the perfect enjoyment that He is

Himself both their present and everlasting happiness and their

portion for ever. My soul, hast thou learnt, and art thou ever

day more and more learning, these precious truths? Oh, then,

look up to thy Jesus, and say with one of old, "Whom have I

in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth I desire besides Thee. My flesh and my heart faileth; but thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."


-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

January 28th, THE POOR MAN’S MORNING PORTION

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