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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord." - Jeremiah 31:14.
The Lord’s people are satisfied with his goodness, even in this life, in such a sense that they willingly forsake all and follow him. In the privation of all other things they are still so satisfied with the love of their divine Saviour, that they cast no regretful looks behind. Ah, but there are some, esteemed the people of God, who seem not to be satisfied with the simple goodness of their heavenly Father: there is too manifest a grasping after the riches and dignities of the earth. Would that they and all might understand that if they only sought to know more of the love of God, they would see it to be satisfying.
We see how much wisdom was given to Paul when he was led to pray that he and others might know more of the length and breadth of the love of God, when he was enabled to count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. Of course it is impossible to be satisfied with the goodness of the Lord if we do not know that goodness. We must know and believe the love that God hath towards us. When a certain man had found a treasure in a field, he went with joy and sold all that he had and bought that field. The perception of Christ’s love to them individually, is vague and dim on the part of many; and no wonder therefore that they are tormented with so many vain desires and imaginations. But this word " satisfied" points to something that eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor heart conceived. To be contented is a blessed and beautiful condition of the soul; but do not suppose that it implies the extinction of desire. Paul was a person of singular contentment, and of singular power of aspiration. But he that has provided for our contentment will in due time crown our highest aspirations. He has shown his power by overcoming the mighty craving of our soul for worldly good; and he will show his power hereafter by transcending our highest conception of happiness. But let contentment have her perfect work.
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