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Evening, March 4 | “They feast on the abundance of your house.” —Psalm 36:8 (ESV)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Psalm 36:5-9 (ESV)

“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
your judgments are like the great deep;
man and beast you save, O Lord.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
hey feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
or with you is the fountain of life;
in your light do we see light.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

Sheba’s queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon’s table. She lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day; and she marvelled equally at the company of servants who feasted at the royal board.

But what is this compared to the abundance of the God of grace? Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed; hungry and thirsty, they bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all, enough for evermore. Though the company that eats at Jehovah’s table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat.

Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads his table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many years; not for many years only, but for generation after generation. Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy’s banquet are satisfied - even more, they are “abundantly satisfied;” and that not with ordinary fare, but with the peculiar abundance of God’s own house. Such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah’s wings.

I once thought if I might but get the leftovers at God’s back door of grace I would be satisfied; like the woman who said, “The dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.” But no child of God is ever served with scraps and leftovers; like Mephibosheth, they all eat from the king’s own table. In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin’s portion — we all have ten times more than we could have expected. Though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvelous plenty of grace which God gives us richly to enjoy.

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