2. Seek the Lord Jesus Christ with your whole hearts —
[He is a portion in which you will never find any lack : in him is a fulness sufficient to fill all the capacities, and satisfy all the desires of the whole universe. MiUions and millions of innnortal souls may go to that fountain, and never diminish his exhaustless store. To the possession of him too no disappoint- ment can attach, nor from the enjoyment of him can any vex- ation ensue. In him all " crooked things are made straight;" and where he is, no want can possibly exist. If you ask of the creature to heal the wounds of sin, to give peace to a guilty conscience, to subdue in us our corruptions, or to cheer us with hopes of immortality, it cannot do any one of these things : no, not even for the body can the creature do any thing to heal its sickness, to assuage its anguish, or to prolong its existence. But the Lord Jesus Christ can do every thing, both for the body and the soul, both for time and for eternity. Seek him, then, Beloved ; and seek him with your whole hearts. In seeking him, your exertions cannot be too earnest, nor can your ex- pectations be too enlarged. If he give you his flesh to eat, and his blood to drink, you will never hunger, never thirst again, either in this world or in the world to come. Only be able to say, " My Beloved is mine, and I am his," and then all, as well on heaven as in earth, is yours ; according as it is written, " All things are yours ; and ye are in Christ's ; and Christ is God's."]