As all rivers flow into the sea, so all delights flow into our Beloved. One glance from his eyes outshines the sun! The beauty of his face surpasses the choicest flowers! No fragrance on earth compares to the breath of his mouth! Every gem from the deepest mine, every pearl from the ocean floor—worthless things when measured against his preciousness.
Peter tells us that Jesus is precious, but he did not—he could not—tell us how precious. None of us can calculate the value of God's unspeakable gift. Words cannot capture the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to his people. They cannot fully tell how essential he is to our satisfaction and happiness.
Believer, haven't you found this to be true? Haven't you discovered a sore famine in the midst of plenty when your Lord was absent? The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden himself, and all the world turned black to you. Or it was night, and since the bright Morning Star was gone, no other star could give you even a ray of light.
What a howling wilderness this world is without our Lord! Once he hides himself from us, the flowers of our garden wither. Our pleasant fruits decay. The birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes. All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness is eclipsed.
He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
Dear reader, what would you do in this world without him when you wake up and face the day's battle? What would you do at night, when you come home exhausted and weary, if there were no door of fellowship between you and Christ? Blessed be his name, he will not make us try our lot without him, for Jesus never forsakes his own.
Yet let the thought of what life would be without him enhance his preciousness.
Closing Prayer
Before you face tomorrow's battles or tonight's weariness, pause and thank him that you will never have to find out what life would be like without him.