“(3) If God is our God, then all that is in God is ours. The Lord says to a saint in covenant as the king of Israel to the king of Syria, “I am thine, and all that I have” (1 Kings 20:4).
So says God, “I am thine.” How happy is he who not only inherits the gift of God but inherits God Himself! All that I have shall be yours.
My wisdom shall be yours, to teach you. My power shall be yours, to support you. My mercy shall be yours, to save you.
God is an infinite ocean of blessedness and there is enough in Him to fill us. If a thousand vessels be thrown into the sea, there is enough in the sea to fill them.
(4) If God is our God, He will entirely love us. Propriety is the ground of love. God may give men kingdoms and not love them. But He cannot be our God and not love us. He calls His covenanted saints, Jediduth Naphshi, “The dearly beloved of my soul” (Jer. 12:7).
He rejoices over them with joy and rests in His love (Zeph. 3:17). They are His refined silver (Zech. 13:9). [They are] His jewels (Mal. 3:17).
[They are] His royal diadem (Isa. 62:3). He gives them the cream and flower of His love. He not only opens His hand and fills them (Ps. 145:16) but opens His heart and fills them.
(5) If God is our God, [then] He will do more for us than all the world besides can. What is that? (1) He will give us peace in trouble. When [there is] a storm without, He will make music within.
The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble. He will send the Comforter, who, as a dove, brings an olive branch of peace in His mouth (John 14:16).
(2) God will give us a crown of immortality. The world can give a crown of gold, but that crown has thorns and death in it.
But God will give “a crown of glory that fadeth not away” (1 Peter 5:4). The garland made of the flowers of paradise never withers.”
–Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments, in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 3, Ed. J. Stephen Yuille and Matthew Elliot (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2026), 3: 16-17.
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