Chapter 23:24.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” How full of comfort is this glorious truth to the soul that seeks Him―that desires to realize His presence! It may be a poor captive in a dungeon, or on a sick bed; a soul all alone, as it were; one groaning under oppression, or perplexed, in difficulty; circumstances and prospects presenting nothing but discouragement. To such what a truth is this: “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” Do not I, Jesus. What a soothing, healing balm is in that blest name!
“The name that calms our fears,
That bide our sorrows come.”
What a hush falls upon the soul―upon creation―as the voice of the Lord is heard, as the presence of the Lord is realized, pervading, occupying everything. It is as the glory filling the temple of old, or the cloud enfolding the mount of transfiguration. “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” What blessedness for the soul that knows, or is known of Him! Can anything keep His presence out from such a one? Unperceived He may be by thousands; but where there has been waiting for Him, where there is felt need of Him, where the heart has desired Him, there He is; and this will be the satisfaction of the soul throughout eternity (the soul whose object is Christ), that He fills it; that filling all in all, as He does, He fills it. It is my own individual joy. I may be, am, but a unit in the vast circle of the redeemed, a drop in the ocean of eternal life, but this is my blessedness, He fills me, I am filled in Him. I can joy in the thought that others are happy, the knowledge of their happiness enhances mine; but the deep satisfaction of my soul, the content that pervades it, has its source in this: that He, the eternal God, the life of all that live, has loved me, loves me ever, fills me from His own exhaustless fullness, makes me a partaker of His own happiness. This by faith now, in full, unclouded, unhindered, perfectness hereafter. Such is the believer’s portion, such the joy that springs into his soul as he enters into the truth of the word, “Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”