by Octavius Winslow
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The Lord's people but imperfectly realize their boundless wealth. They resemble an heir to whom a vast estate has been bequeathed, but who yet remains ignorant of the rich and extensive mines which underlie its surface, filling every acre with veins of the richest ore, until some incidental upturned sod brings to light the precious deposit. God has given us His Word--a field of wealth incalculable; His Son--in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; the covenant of grace--ordered in all things and sure; and Himself, our infinite, all-sufficient, all-satisfying, and inalienable--PORTION. Well may the apostle, summing up the inventory of our possessions, exclaim--as if no measurement or number could compass and compute their extent--"ALL THINGS are yours!"
To enable the pious reader to estimate in some experimental measure his vast opulence, is the design of this little work. The writer has endeavored to concentrate all the believer's wealth--where, in truth, God has deposited it--in JESUS; deeply, solemnly convinced that, it is the lack of more simple views of Christ, and a more direct application to His mediatorial sufficiency--dealing with the Father more immediately through the Son, in whom it pleased Him that all fullness should dwell--which is the cause of so much soul-leanness, prostration of spiritual power, and languor of love in many of the saints.
The points of light in which God in Christ may be regarded as the believer's PORTION were many and inviting. The writer trusts his pages will afford at least some faint reflection of "the unsearchable riches of Christ," to which the weakest, the obscurest Christ-believing, Christ-loving soul may prefer a personal claim, and say, "All is mine, for I am Christ's, and Christ is God's!"
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. THE LORD MY PORTION
2. THE LORD MY HUSBAND
3. THE LORD MY BROTHER
4. THE LORD MY HOPE
5. THE LORD MY HELPER
6. THE LORD MY REFINER
7. THE LORD MY HEALER
8. THE LORD MY DELIVERER
9. THE LORD MY MASTER
10. THE LORD MY SERVANT
11. THE LORD MY TEACHER
12. THE LORD MY EXAMPLE
13. THE LORD MY BURDEN-BEARER
14. THE LORD MY SHEPHERD
15. THE LORD MY RESTORER
16. THE LORD MY LIGHT
17. THE LORD MY KEEPER
18. THE LORD MY CARE-TAKER
19. THE LORD MY PROVIDER
20. THE LORD MY REST
21. THE LORD MY BISHOP
22. THE LORD MY LEADER
23. THE LORD MY FOOD
24. THE LORD MY DRINK
25. THE LORD MY SAVIOR
26. THE LORD OUR PEACE
27. THE LORD MY JOY
28. THE LORD MY SONG
29. THE LORD MY CREDITOR
30. THE LORD MY EXPECTATION
31. CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL