The great fountains and the glorious canal to fill all your needs
Charles Spurgeon
SUMMARY: The text "My God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory" means that God's riches in nature, providence, and grace are beyond comprehension. His glory is even greater, and through Christ Jesus, we can receive all that we need. We must abide in Him and not rely on our own strength. The author wishes the reader a Happy New Year filled with the blessings of God.
Let us consider for a minute or two THE GREAT SOURCES from which this supply is to flow: "My God, then, will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory ." The preacher can sit down now, for he cannot conceive of this part of the text. God's riches in glory are beyond all thought.
Consider the riches of God in nature; Who could count its treasures? Visit the forests; Travel league after league amidst the trees that cast their broad shadow, not for the pleasure of some man but solely for God. Behold, on the lonely mountainside and on the vast plain, the myriad flowers whose perfume is only for God. How much wealth is created each spring and each summer in the limitless estates of the great King! Observe the vast quantity of animal and insect life that crowd the earth with the riches of divine wisdom, for "the earth is the Lord's and its fullness." Look in the direction of the sea; think of those schools of fish, so countless that, when only the periphery of them is touched by our fishermen, they find enough food to supply a nation.
Consider the riches of God in nature; Who could count its treasures? Visit the forests; Travel league after league amidst the trees that cast their broad shadow, not for the pleasure of some man but solely for God. Behold, on the lonely mountainside and on the vast plain, the myriad flowers whose perfume is only for God. How much wealth is created each spring and each summer in the limitless estates of the great King! Observe the vast quantity of animal and insect life that crowd the earth with the riches of divine wisdom, for "the earth is the Lord's and its fullness." Look in the direction of the sea; think of those schools of fish, so countless that, when only the periphery of them is touched by our fishermen, they find enough food to supply a nation.
