Jesus Is Our Everything

Isaiah 49:8 So says Jehovah, in a favorable time I replied to You, and in a day of salvation I have helped You; and I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause them to inherit the wasted inheritances;

[A devotional by Charles Spurgeon]

The first Sunday of the New Year and what a devotional to read this morning. Please read how Charles Spurgeon describes Jesus as our covenant.

[Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Consider that word “God” and its infinity, and then meditate upon “perfect man” and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine-out of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours?]

What does it mean to be omniscient? - all-knowing: knowing or seeming to know everything.

What does it mean to be omnipresent? - always present everywhere: continuously and simultaneously present throughout the whole of creation.

What does it mean to be omnipresent? - all-powerful: possessing complete, unlimited, or universal power and authority.

Wow, how can anyone go wrong with Jesus in your life? Read on as Charles Spurgeon more of Christ's attributes. And to think it is all ours because of His grace. Praise God!

[Has he power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Has he love? Well, you may dive into the immense ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, “It is mine.” Hath he justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for he will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that he has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father’s delight was upon him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God’s acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, he sets on thee now? For all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out, when through his stainless life he kept the law and made it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. Christ is in the covenant.]

I love that sentence about Christ's love, "there is not a drop of love in his heart which is not yours", I get excited just reading those words. Did we deserve His love? No, but because He loves us we can sing words like this refrain from the hymn "Greater Than All Our Sin" states:

Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin.

Listen to how Charles Spurgeon writes about His love!

[“My God, I am thine-what a comfort divine!
What a blessing to know that the Saviour is mine!
In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,
And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name.”]

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