A dying judge said to his pastor, “Do you know enough about law to understand what is meant by joint tenancy?”

“No,” was the reply; “I know nothing about law; I know a little about grace, and that satisfies me.”

“Well,” he said, “if you and I were joint tenants on a farm, I could not say to you, ‘That is your field of corn, and this is mine; that is your blade of grass, and this is mine,’ but we would share alike in everything on the place. I have just been lying here and thinking with unspeakable joy that Christ Jesus has nothing apart from me, that everything He has is mine, and that we will share alike through all eternity.”

God wants you to have all that He has—His Son, His life, His love, His Spirit, His glory. “All [things] are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God” (1 Corinthians 3:22–23). “My son . . . you are always with me, and everything I have is yours” (Luke 15:31). What a privilege! What a life for a child of God! Only unbelief can blind us to the Father’s love. Only with a false humility, the children of the King set limitations about their lives that He never appointed. The full table is set for us, and we eat so sparingly, forgetful of the voice that cries, “Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved” (Song of Songs 5:1 KJV).

“The resources of the Christian life,” says Dr. Robert F. Horton, “are just Jesus Christ.” He is our regal provision for the way. He is the way. Let us draw upon these Divine resources. Whom should He bless, even on earth, if not His own?

Supply yourself from Him!

God is to be adored, but He is also to be used. Merely to worship Him in the awe of His greatness and holiness is not to please Him fully. He wants us to draw upon Him as an asset of our practical life and as a priceless possession. We live in Him, but He also lives in us to bring to our souls the power of His own infinite life. To possess him is to possess all things and to have power to attain our noblest purposes.

He is always at our service. Use Him, then, for He is there and waits for you to use Him. All the unclaimed wealth of the forty thousand checks in the bankbook of the Bible is ours! And “He satisfieth [satiates] the longing soul” (Psalm 107:9 KJV). God is our God to be used for things we need Him for.

My need and Thy great fullness meet, and I have all in Thee.

God has a separate inheritance for each one. Do not fail to enter upon yours. “It is your right to redeem it and possess it” (Jeremiah 32:8).

O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.—His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.—Whether . . . the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's.—Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.—Godliness with contentment is great gain.—My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.—Ye thought evil against me: but God meant it unto good.

All things are yours; whether . . . the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.—All things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.

All things are yours; . . . the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all … things shall be added unto you.—He that spared not his Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things?

All things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.—As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.—The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly.—The living God, … giveth us richly all things to enjoy.—God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, . . . though he was rich, yet for your sakes . . . became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.—The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.—Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

All things are yours: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.