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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 132:15
I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
132:15. I will abundantly bless her provision. It must be so. How can we be without a blessing when the Lord is among us? We live upon his Word, we are clothed by his charity, we are armed by his power: all sorts of provision are in him, and how can we be otherwise than blessed? The provision is to be abundantly blessed; then it will be abundant and blessed. Daily provision, royal provision, satisfying provision, overflowingly joyful provision the church shall receive; and the divine benediction will cause us to receive it with faith, to feed upon it by experience, to grow upon it by sanctification, to be strengthened by it to labor, cheered by it to patience, and built up by it to perfection.
I will satisfy her poor with bread. The citizens of Zion are poor in themselves, poor in spirit, and often poor in pocket, but their hearts and souls will dwell in such abundance that they will neither need more nor desire more. Satisfaction is the crown of experience. Where God rests his people will be satisfied. They are to be satisfied with what the Lord himself calls bread, and we may be sure that he knows what is really bread for souls. He will not give us a stone. The Lord’s poor will have that which will suit their palate, remove their hunger, fill their desire, build up their frame, and perfect their growth. The bread of earth is “the bread that perisheth,” but the bread of God endureth to life eternal. In the church where God rests his people shall not starve; the Lord would never rest if they did. He did not take rest for six days till he had prepared the world for the first man to live in; he would not stay his hand till all things were ready; therefore, we may be sure if the Lord rests it is because “it is finished,” and the Lord has prepared of his goodness for the poor. Where God finds his desire his people will find theirs; if he is satisfied, they will be.
Taking the two clauses together, we see that nothing but an abundant blessing in the church will satisfy the Lord’s poor people: they are naked and miserable till that comes. All the provision that Solomon himself could make would not have satisfied the saints of his day: they looked higher, and longed for the Lord’s own boundless blessing, and hungered for the bread which came down from heaven. Blessed be the Lord, for we see in this verse two of the I wills of God to rest upon, and nothing could be a better support to our faith.
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