Savoring the Sobering News...

...of Psalms 73.26, this morning. My heart and my flesh may (read "will") fail. If there is one thing certain about life, it's that if I live long enough my heart and flesh (Hebrew euphemisms for "body" and "soul") are going to fail. I'll be taken down by old age, illness, or incapacitation. Anyone can see that this is the course of life. Indeed, one might say that old age is one of God's ways of demonstrating to us that we are not God.

However, there is good news. While my body and soul may fail, there is hope for those who follow Christ because God is the strength of my life and my portion forever. John Calvin makes this comment about what it means that God is my portion:

The portion of an individual is a figurative expression, employed in Scripture to denote the condition or lot with which every man is contented. Accordingly, the reason why God is represented as a portion is, because he alone is abundantly sufficient for us, and because in him the perfection of our happiness consists.

I gladly join the Psalmist in claiming that God is my portion, that he is the lot with which I am most completely contended. He is sufficient for me. He is sufficient for you.

Is he sufficient for you?