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).

It is well to have longings, and the more intense they are the better. The Lord will satisfy soul-longings, however great and all-absorbing they may be. Let us greatly long, for God will greatly give. We are never in a right state of mind when we are contented with ourselves and are free from longings. Desires for more grace and groanings which cannot be uttered are growing pains, and we should wish to feel them more and more. Blessed Spirit, make us sigh and cry after better things and for more of the best things!

Hunger is by no means a pleasant sensation. Yet blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. Such persons shall not only have their hunger relieved with a little food, but they shall be filled. They shall not be filled with any sort of rough stuff, but their diet shall be worthy of their good Lord, for they shall be filled with goodness by Jehovah Himself.

Come, let us not fret because we long and hunger, but let us hear the voice of the psalmist as he also longs and hungers to see God magnified. "Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men."

Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.

Eve . . . bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The Lord scattered them.—Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.—I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.—He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord , and to enquire in his temple.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.—He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.—I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.