Week Thirty-Five

My heart is filled with bliss—

Heaven’s own eternal joys:

My soul at rest—

Of peace possessed—

That world its strength employs.

God could find no rest save in Jesus. We may look throughout the world, we shall find nothing which can satisfy our hearts but Jesus.

When the heart is made full with the rich blessings of Christ, it will not turn back to gnaw upon itself.

All the things that will make me blessed in heaven I have now. … If you want to know what makes a Christian happy in life and death it is that the Christ he has got now is the Christ that he will have in heaven. He has got his home there, where the One he loves and knows best is already.

The fact is, your hearts are too big for the world, it cannot fill them; they are too little for Christ, for He fills heaven; yet will He fill you to overflowing.

Every one who does not know Christ has either a disappointed heart or a heart seeking what will disappoint it.

If His love is not filling my heart, I shall go to some vanity in a shop to satisfy me: my heart will get into my business. If my spirit is wrapped up in the love of Christ, there will be rivers of water flowing out.

No testimony, no preaching, no teaching, even if the matter of it be all right, is right teaching, when the soul is not filled for itself first from God. We must drink for ourselves that rivers may flow. Indeed all else dries up the soul.

The world at once sees if God is the centre of a person. The heart is not morbid, but thoroughly happy in God; it has perfect satisfaction in Him, this is what makes such a difference in life.

Desert lands where drought abides?

Heavenly springs shall there restore thee

Fresh from God’s exhaustless tides.”