Jesus is my all in all!

“Behold, all is vanity.”

- Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind.

[Charles Spurgeon]

[Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord’s love and the Lord’s own self.]

I will always remember as a young man having a conversation with my oldest brother. I felt that there was something special that I was missing in my life. Now mind you I was saved as a teenager at 15 years of age but broke away from the church after coming finishing my military service. Please read as Charles Spurgeon speaks of the wisest man Solomon, and how he finally understood everything he did was vanity. Solomon finally understood that Christ is the only "all in all!"

[Saints have tried to anchor in other roadsteads, but they have been driven out of such fatal refuges. Solomon, the wisest of men, was permitted to make experiments for us all, and to do for us what we must not dare to do for ourselves. Here is his testimony in his own words: “So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.” “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” What! the whole of it vanity? O favoured monarch, is there nothing in all thy wealth? Nothing in that wide dominion reaching from the river even to the sea? Nothing in Palmyra’s glorious palaces? Nothing in the house of the forest of Lebanon? In all thy music and dancing, and wine and luxury, is there nothing? “Nothing,” he says, “but weariness of spirit.” This was his verdict when he had trodden the whole round of pleasure. To embrace our Lord Jesus, to dwell in his love, and be fully assured of union with him-this is all in all. Dear reader, you need not try other forms of life in order to see whether they are better than the Christian’s: if you roam the world around, you will see no sights like a sight of the Saviour’s face;]

Now read this last part of today's evening devotional as Charles Spurgeon describes if you lost everything but win Christ it is a paradise. Just as the lyrics for the song You Are My All In All states;
Your are my strength when I am weak
You are the treasure that I seek
You are my all in all
Seeking You like a precious jewel
Lord, to give up I'd be a fool
You are my all in all
Jesus, Lamb of God
Holy is Your name
Taking my cross, my sin, my shame
Raising again I praise Your name
You are my all in all
When I fall down you pick me up
When I run dry you fill my cup
You are my all in all

[If you could have all the comforts of life, if you lost your Saviour, you would be wretched; but if you win Christ, then should you rot in a dungeon, you would find it a paradise; should you live in obscurity, or die with famine, you will yet be satisfied with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord.]

Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott