“I am thy…exceeding great reward.” ~ Gen. 15:1
Not thy reward, but thy “exceeding, great” reward. What more could one want? The little Sunday School boy had it right when he mistakenly quoted the Twenty-third Psalm by saying, “The Lord is my shepherd, that’s all I want.” How content God should make us! When Hannah was wanting and weeping for something other than her beloved husband, Elkanah said, “[A]m I not better to thee than ten sons?” Or as the poet put it, “Am I not enough, mine own, enough, mine own, for thee?”
The king of Israel said to Benhadad, “I am thine, and all that I have…” So says our God to us. We have the Rewarder as well as the reward. Things may suffice us; but only God can satisfy us. It is only God, and God alone, who can make us happy. As the old Puritan said, “You can’t find happiness digging it out of a cursed earth.” “Happy is that people whose God is the Lord.”
Abraham gave up the King of Sodom’s offer of a reward, and got the King of Kings in its place.
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