Look at what you have, O believer, and compare your portion with what everyone else has received. Some have their portion in the field. They are wealthy landowners, and their harvests bring them golden profits year after year. But what are harvests compared to your God, who is the God of all harvests? What are bursting granaries compared to him, the Husbandman who feeds you with the bread of heaven?

Some have their portion in the city. Wealth flows to them in constant streams until they become a very reservoir of gold. But what is gold compared to your God? You cannot live on it. Your spiritual life cannot be sustained by it. Put it on a troubled conscience, and could it allay its pangs? Apply it to a desponding heart, and see if it could stay a solitary groan, or give one grief the less? But you have God, and in him you have more than gold or riches ever could buy.

Some have their portion in what most men love—applause and fame. But ask yourself, is not your God more to you than that? What if a myriad clarions should be loud in your applause? Would this prepare you to pass the Jordan, or cheer you in prospect of judgment? No! There are griefs in life which wealth cannot alleviate; and there is the deep need of a dying hour, for which no riches can provide.

But when you have God for your portion, you have more than all else put together. In him every want is met, whether in life or in death. With God for your portion you are rich indeed, for he will supply your need, comfort your heart, assuage your grief, guide your steps, be with you in the dark valley, and then take you home, to enjoy him as your portion forever.

"I have enough," said Esau; this is the best thing a worldly man can say. But Jacob replies, "I have all things"—which is a note too high for carnal minds.