“What a multitude of eyes’ and hearts directed to our Redeemer! He has a numerous and needy family; but He is rich enough to supply them all, and His tender compassions extend to the meanest and most unworthy.
Like the sun, He can cheer and enlighten thousands and millions at once, and give to each as bountifully as if there were no more to partake of His favour.
His best blessings are not diminished by being shared among many. The greatest earthly monarch would soon be poor if He was to give a little (though but a little) to all His subjects.
But Jesus has unsearchable, inexhaustible riches of grace to bestow. The innumerable assembly before the Throne have been all supplied from His fulness; and yet there is enough and to spare for us also, and for all that shall come after us.
May He give us an eager appetite, a hunger and thirst that will not be put off with any thing short of the bread of life; and then we may confidently open our mouths wide, for He has promised to fill them.”
–John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 2 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1820/1988), 2: 194-195.
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