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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. When the heart is
made full with the rich blessings of Christ, it will not turn back to
gnaw upon itself. 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. 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. “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. Every one who
does not know Christ has either a disappointed heart or a heart seeking
what will disappoint it. 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. 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. 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. “Is the wilderness before thee— Desert lands where drought abides? Heavenly springs shall there restore thee Fresh
from God’s
exhaustless tides.”
“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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