God Is Enough

Psalm 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Charles Wesley, “Jesus, All-Atoning Lamb”

Whom have I on earth below?

Thee, and only Thee, I know;

Whom have I in heaven, but Thee?

Thou art all in all to me.

F.B. Meyer on Exodus 3:14 "I AM WHO I AM."

"I AM _____ " says our great Partner; "fill in your need, and I will (be your _____), according to the riches of My glory in Christ Jesus."

John Gibbon Puritan Sermons 1659-1689

God alone is enough, but without him, nothing is enough for your happiness.

William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armour

Thou knowest not God, if thou seest not enough in Him to make thee happy without the world's contributions.

Thomas Watson The Ten Commandments

What a privilege to have God as our God! If one loses his name, it is written in the book of life. If he loses his liberty, his conscience is free. If he loses his estate, he owns the pearl of great price. If he meets a storm, he has a harbor.

John Flavel A New Compass For Seamen, "Navigation Spiritualized"

I should rather wonder that I have so much, than repine that I have no more. I should rather have been troubled that I have done no more for God, that that I have received no more from God. I have not proclaimed it to the world by my conversation, that I have found a sufficiency in Him alone, as the saints have done. How have I debased the faithfulness and all-sufficiency of God; and magnified these earthly trifles, by my anxiety about them? Had I had more faith, a light purse would not have made such a heavy heart.

George Swinnock

"The Christian Man's Calling"

Let a godly man enjoy his God, in whom he places all his joy and happiness, he is well, for he has all. According to the degree of our enjoyment of God is the degree of our happiness.

"The Fading Of The Flesh"

Once (a man) let God possess his heart, then, and not before, his infinite desires are satisfied in the bosom of his Maker.

Joseph Caryl in Spurgeon's The Treasury of David on Psalm 18

The saints look more at God than at all that is God's. They say, Non tua, sed te; we desire not thine, but thee, or nothing of thine like thee. "Whom have I in heaven but thee?" saith David. What are saints? what are angels, to a soul without God? It is true of things as well as of persons. What have we in heaven but God? What's joy without God? What's glory without God? What's all the furniture and riches, all the delicacies, yea, all the diadems of heaven, without the God of heaven? If God should say to the saints, Here is heaven, take it amongst you, but I will withdraw myself, how would they weep over heaven itself, and make it a Baca, a valley of tears indeed. Heaven is not heaven unless we enjoy God. It is the presence of God which makes heaven: glory is but our nearest being unto God.

John Bunyan Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble

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This is the language of faith; if God be my God, if I be his child, born of him, reconciled to him, pardoned, justified, sanctified, in covenant with him, why am I troubled, though he give me neither health, nor wealth, nor friends, nor relations? Have I not enough in having God to be my God? Is not God more than all?

On Psalm 73:25 “Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.”

Let us all labor to get an interest in God, by faith in Jesus Christ, that so we may be able to look upon God as our God; and then we may claim an interest in all that God is, and in all that God has, and so shall we have no cause for heart trouble in any condition. For if God be ours, all his attributes are ours, his gracious covenant is ours, his word and promises are ours, all are ours; therefore should we labor in this above all things, spending all our thoughts, affections, and spirits upon this. O, let us lay hold on God and his covenant; let us choose him for our portion, and resign up our whole selves unfeignedly to him, centering and terminating all our desires, hope, love, and delight in him alone; placing all our happiness in him, and then committing all to him.

Melchior Ritter, 1689 O God, in Thee alone can our wearied spirits find full satisfaction and rest, and in Thy love is the highest joy. Lord, if we have Thee we have enough; and we are happy if Thou wilt but give peace to our consciences, and make us know how gracious and merciful Thou art. Preserve in our hearts that peace which passeth all understanding; and make us better and holier in time to come.

Octavius Winslow

Daily Walking With God

By afflictions, crosses, and disappointments God convinces that lonely, bereaved, and desolate heart that He is a substitute for everything, while nothing shall ever be a substitute for Him. He will have the supreme affection of His saints; they shall find their all in Him; and to this end He sends (what is needed) to wean them from their idols and draw them to Himself.

As God-man Mediator, Christ is the covenant Head and Preserver of His Church; "it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell." (Colossians 1:19) The Father knew what His beloved family would need. He knew what corruptions would threaten them, what temptations would beguile them, what foes would assail them, what infirmities would encompass them, and what trials would depress them; therefore it pleased Him, it was His own good and gracious pleasure, that in His Son, the Mediator of His beloved people, should all fullness dwell—a fullness of merit, a fullness of pardon, a fullness of righteousness, a fullness of grace, wisdom, and strength, commensurate with the varied, multiplied, and diversified circumstances of His family.

There is in Him an all-sufficiency of love to comfort us; an all-sufficiency of strength to uphold us; an all-sufficiency of power to protect us; and all-sufficiency of good to satisfy us; an all-sufficiency of wisdom to guide us; an all-sufficiency of glory to reward us; and an all-sufficiency of bliss to make us happy here, and happy to all eternity.

A.B. Simpson

When the sun is shining, it is easy to have faith for our needs and to trust God. But let something arise which irritates and rasps and frets us, and we soon find whether we have real trust or not. Consequently, the things of everyday life are tests of our real faith in God, and He often puts us where we have to trust for tangible matters-for money and rent, food and clothes. If in these things you are not trusting God wholly, you will break down when you are placed in such tests. Are you trusting God for everything?

Do you want power? You have God for it. Do you want holiness? You have God for it. You have God for every need! He is bending down from His throne today to lift you to your true place in Him. From this time on may the cloud of His glory so surround and fill us that we shall be lost sight of forever.

Lord, help me this day to seek Thee first, and be more desirous to please Thee and have Thy will than to possess any other blessing.