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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." ― Lamentations 3:24.
Poor man, says the world. But no, says the believer; he is to be pitied who boasts of any other portion than this. If the Lord be not thy portion, will any portion that thou hast continue? Let it be power like that of Napoleon, wisdom like that of Socrates; fame like that of Bacon, imagination like that of Scott, wealth like that of the Bourbons; let it be beauty, or valor, or wit, or industry; let it be troops of friends, or one most loving heart; let it be what it may, it is a contemptible portion, if it be thine all.
He that becomes a follower of Christ, declares that the Lord is his portion. He counts all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of him. And not only does his soul say it; his life, his daily life, must say it; must testify that he has forsaken all for Christ. How singular that, after all the glimpses of his boundless wealth, and power, and majesty, granted by Christ to the sons of men when on the earth, he should find so few willing to take up with him for a portion. It was the merest trifle for him to spread a table for five thousand men, besides women and children; with but a word he loaded several boats full of large fishes; he raised the dead; all power in heaven and in earth was manifestly his. We see plainly that all other portions must at last revert to him, and he will give them to whom he will. But independently of all material gifts, there is that in his character which makes him, him alone, able to satisfy the soul throughout eternity.
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