Lloyd-Jones on God's Riches

What is so wonderful, therefore, is that we find this experience of God not only in the lives of outstanding men, great preachers, great thinkers and others, but also in the lives of the most ordinary people. And that is why we should thank God that these greater men have recorded some of the experiences told them by these others whose names are not even remembered. But they participated in the same thing. At every time of revival there is no distinction between great and small. The 'wind bloweth where it listeth' (John 3:8), and the Spirit chooses people of all types. You will find some of the most ordinary people filled until their hearts are overflowing and almost incapable of expressing what has happened to them.

 

Now that is what we must realise: it is his action, and when he acts, he 'sheds abroad', he 'pours forth', with the result that out of our innermost parts flow 'streams of living water', and it is overwhelming.

John Ryland sums this up so well:

No good in creatures can be found
But may be found in Thee;
I must have all things and abound,
While God is God to me.
He that has made my heaven secure
Will here all good provide.

Then:

While Christ is rich, can I be poor?
What can I want beside?
(John Ryland)

 

I am in Christ; he is the Head of the body. There is an intimate organic relationship. So John Ryland puts the logical question, 'While Christ is rich' - he is the Lord of glory, the Lord of everything - 'While Christ is rich, can I be poor?' Beloved Christian people, there is something wrong somewhere, is there not? We are in him, we belong to him, he is our Head, we are his people and he is so rich - 'the unsearchable riches of Christ' - so how can we be poor? What is the matter? Why do we not receive of his fullness?

Check up these passages in the Bible, and then turn what you read into prayer.