He Is My Portion

Lately, I've been reading a lot in my devotions about how God is all we need.

Lamentations 3:24, "I say to myself, 'the Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.'"

Exodus 15:2, "The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

1 Chronicles 16:11, "Look to the LORD and his strength; seek His face always.


Psalm 28:8, "The LORD is the strength of His people, a fortress of salvation for His anointed one."

Psalm 73:26, "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

Psalm 105:4, "Look to the LORD and His strength; seek His face always."

Isaiah 12:2, "Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation."


Is that true of you? I think of how often we, even as Christians, try to come before God bringing Jesus plus something else. But we cannot in any way be justifiable before our Lord with Jesus plus anything else. It is either Jesus that we depend on for everything, or it is not. Either God will be one's portion, or something else will have first priority in life. This is sometimes a very hard concept to grasp. We think that we understand that Jesus is all we need, yet sometimes we are not willing to make Jesus all that we have. As Corrie ten Boom once said, "You can never know that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have." It really is easy to think that we can approach God's throne bringing something of our own. But we cannot. It's either Jesus, or something else.

God is jealous for our affections...

Is He your portion?