LORD JESUS ~ Bread of Life & Fountain of Living Water

"They shall hunger no more." -Revelation 7:16 [KJV]

 

My soul! contemplate for a moment, before thou enterest upon the concerns of time and sense, in the claims of the world, the blessed state of the redeemed above. They are at the fountain-head of happiness, in their station, in their service, in their society, in their provision, in their everlasting exemption from all want, and above all, in the presence of God and the Lamb. "They shall hunger no more." Sweet thought! Let me this day anticipate as many of the blessed properties of it as my present state in Jesus will admit. If Jesus be my home, my residence, my dwelling-place, will not the hungerings of my soul find supply?  

 

Yes, surely. A life of faith on the Son of God, is a satisfying life, under all the changes of the world around. Finding Jesus, I find sustenance in Him, and therefore do not hunger for ought besides Him. "Thou art my hiding-place,"said one of old; and my soul finds occasion to adopt the same language. And He that is' my hiding-place, is also my food and my nourishment. In Jesus there is both food and a fence; there is fruit, as well as a shadow; and the fulness of Jesus needs vent in the wants of His people, for the pouring forth of His all-sufficiency. 

 

My soul, cherish this thought to the full. If thy hunger be really for Jesus, and Him only, then will thy hunger be abundantly supplied in His communication. As long as I look at my wants, without an eye to Jesus, I shall be miserable. But if I consider those wants and that emptiness purposely appointed for the pouring out of His fulness, they will appear as made for the cause of happiness. Jesus keeps up the hungering, that He may have the blessedness of supplying them; He keeps his children empty that He may fill them, and that His fulness may be in request among them.  

 

So far, therefore, is my hungering from becoming a source of sorrow, it furnisheth out a source of holy joy. I should never be straitened in myself, when I am not straitened in Jesus. Nay, it would be a sad token of distance from Jesus if a sense of want was lessened. While, on the other hand, the best proof' I can have of nearness to Jesus, and living upon Him, is, when my enjoyment of Jesus discovers new and increasing wants, and excites an holy hungering for His supplying them. By and by I shall get home, and then at the fountain head of rapture and delight, all hungering and wants will be done away, in the full and everlasting enjoyment of God and the Lamb! 

 

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

March 7th, THE POOR MAN’S MORNING PORTION

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