Notice the exact words: not "The Lord is partly my portion," not "The Lord is in my portion." No! He himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within that circle lies everything we possess or could ever desire.

The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely. Not his love merely. Not his covenant merely. But Jehovah himself! Think of it! He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. Yes, it's true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or we would never choose it ourselves. But if we are truly called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing with the hymn writer: "Loved by my God, for him again with love intense I burn; chosen of him before time began, I choose him in return."

The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills himself. And if God is all-sufficient in himself, then he must be all-sufficient for us. Listen! It is not easy to satisfy the human heart. Just when we dream we're satisfied, we wake to find there's something yet beyond us, and immediately the horse-leech in our hearts cries out: "Give! Give!"

But everything we could ever wish for is found in our divine portion. Everything! So we ask with the psalmist: "Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you." How right it is to delight ourselves in the Lord who makes us drink from the river of his pleasures! Watch how faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love—her proper dwelling place. "The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a beautiful inheritance."

So let us rejoice in the Lord always! Let us show the world that we are a happy and blessed people, and make them exclaim: "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!"