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My heart is filled with bliss— Heaven’s own eternal joys: My soul at rest— Of peace possessed— That world its strength employs.
God could find no rest save in Jesus. We may look throughout the world, we shall find nothing which can satisfy our hearts but Jesus.
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When the heart is made full with the rich blessings of Christ, it will not turn back to gnaw upon itself.
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All the things that will make me blessed in heaven I have now. … If you want to know what makes a Christian happy in life and death it is that the Christ he has got now is the Christ that he will have in heaven. He has got his home there, where the One he loves and knows best is already.
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The fact is, your hearts are too big for the world, it cannot fill them; they are too little for Christ, for He fills heaven; yet will He fill you to overflowing.
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“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you;” He had no joy from the world. He had perfect joy in the Father. His joy was in bringing forth fruit to the Father’s glory. He is thus shewing to us how in fruit bearing we can have joy and blessedness down here. “That your joy might be full.” That is what He wants us to have—fulness of joy; and it is not from the world, but the kind of joy He had. It is His desire that we should have His own joy.
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Every one who does not know Christ has either a disappointed heart or a heart seeking what will disappoint it.
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If His love is not filling my heart, I shall go to some vanity in a shop to satisfy me: my heart will get into my business. If my spirit is wrapped up in the love of Christ, there will be rivers of water flowing out.
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No testimony, no preaching, no teaching, even if the matter of it be all right, is right teaching, when the soul is not filled for itself first from God. We must drink for ourselves that rivers may flow. Indeed all else dries up the soul.
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The world at once sees if God is the centre of a person. The heart is not morbid, but thoroughly happy in God; it has perfect satisfaction in Him, this is what makes such a difference in life.
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“Is the wilderness before thee— Desert lands where drought abides? Heavenly springs shall there restore thee Fresh
from
God’s
exhaustless
tides.”
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“If ye
loved me,
ye would rejoice, because I … go unto the Father.”
Inasmuch as He has
exercised love to us, He associates us with Himself,
and expects us to
rejoice in His happiness. What a place to give us: to
be able to say,
“I am happy because He is glorified;” our hearts
satisfied that Christ,
who has loved us and made us happy, is contented! We
see Him in the
glory due to Him, and we are satisfied. … He expects
us to be glad in
His happiness! Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the
Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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