What more could I desire? By Charles Spurgeon

Song of Songs, Chapter 2, Verse 16

My Beloved is Mine, and I am His

What a sweet and wondrous relationship exists between the believer and the Lord Jesus! What a privilege to call Him my Beloved! He is not only my Savior, but my daily bread, my hourly companion, my constant joy. The more I know Him, the more I love Him.

This short verse is a wellspring of soul-satisfying truth. It is the language of holy intimacy, breathed from the heart of a redeemed sinner who has been saved from eternal perdition by Jesus. Here the sincere Christian speaks with the warmth of experiential knowledge.

My Beloved is mine, and I am His.

My beloved is mine. Who is this beloved? He is the altogether lovely one, the fairest of ten thousand, the eternal Son of God. The believer dares to say that this glorious person, this Prince of Heaven, is his. The one who reigns over angels, who upholds all creation by the word of his power, has freely given himself to his redeemed people. All that He is and all that He has becomes theirs. His righteousness covers them. His intercession sustains them. His Spirit indwells them. His love surrounds them. His promises anchor them. Oh, what infinite condescension that such a Savior would belong to such unworthy and hell-deserving sinners!

And I am His. The believer belongs to Jesus. not merely by profession, but by redemption. He is bought with a price, sealed with His Spirit, and set apart for His glory. The Christian is not his own. His heart, his will, his time, his affections, his very life, are bound up in the One who gave Himself for him. What a glorious blessing it is to wholly belong to the tender, faithful, wise, and holy One who loves us perfectly.

In these few words lies the believer's identity, security, and joy. All the storms of life, all the assaults of the enemy, all the changing winds of emotions and circumstances cannot rob us of the assurance that Jesus is mine and I am His.

If Jesus is mine then, His love is mine to enjoy. His power is mine to protect me. His wisdom is mine to guide me. His righteousness is mine to clothe me. His glory is mine to crown me. I am His, and He is mine. What more could I desire? If I lose everything, yet retain my Lord, then I am rich beyond imagination. But if I had all the world and not my Jesus, then I would be poor indeed.

We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John chapter 4 verse 19.