Spurgeon on John 17:22

C. H. Spurgeon wrote a devotional classic titled “Morning and Evening Devotions.”If you are not familiar with it, you should be. This is definitely a book you want in your library, and not just ‘on the shelf’ but to read daily -- in the Morning and in the Evening as the title suggests.He usually takes a verse or two or three from Scripture and then writes devotional and / or explanatory thoughts building on the verse or verses.Below is an example of one of the brief but profound entries, this particular one is based on

John 17:22, "And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them."

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"And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them." John 17:22

"Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all.

Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He not content until He had given us all that He had.

It would have been surprising grace if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His bounty beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves, He makes us sit with Him and share the feast.

Had He given us some small pension from His royal coffers, we should have had cause to love Him eternally; but no, He will have His bride as rich as Himself, and He will not have a glory or a grace in which she shall not share.

He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions.

He has emptied all His estate into the coffers of the Church, and hath all things common with His redeemed.

There is not one room in His house the key of which He will withhold from His people.

He gives them full liberty to take all that He hath to be their own; He loves them to make free with His treasure, and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry.

The boundless fullness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes.

Christ hath put the flagon of His love and grace to the believer's lip, and bidden him drink on for ever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is all his own.

What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford? "When I stand before the throne Dressed in beauty not my own; When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unsinning heart; Then, Lord, shall I fully know -- Not till then --how much I owe."

(C.H. Spurgeon,) From his book: Morning and Evening Devotions

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