God Is Our God

I beseech you, do not lose the comfort of it, that in Christ, God is our God. Perhaps we cannot say, great houses are ours, or friends are ours, or inheritances ours. That is no matter. We can say, that is ours which is infinitely more than that. We can say, God is ours in Christ. If God be ours, then all else is ours too. What does that include?
(1) If God be ours, his wisdom must be ours, to find out ways to do us good; for his infinite wisdom has found out a way in Christ to bring us to heaven.
(2) If we are in danger, his power is ours, to bring us out of it.
(3) If we have sinned, his mercy is ours, to forgive us.
(4) In any want, his all-sufficiency is ours, to supply it or to turn it to good.
(5) In a word, God being ours, whatever is in God, whatever God can do, whatever he has, is ours, because he is ours.
Therefore, I beseech you, make this use of it, to get into Christ by faith; to be one with Christ, that God may be our God. Now, when we have God to be our God, he is able to fill the soul. He is larger than the soul, and he is able to quiet the soul; he is the rest of the soul, the place of quiet. Though a man continues many thousand years in the world, yet he will be weary of all things in the world, because there is no freshness in them. But in God is a spring of fresh comforts to everlasting, Consider, again, the things that enable him to be our God, to fill the soul, and to be larger than the soul; to quiet and calm the soul in all the troubles of it; and then to have fresh springs of comfort. What a comfort is this; to have God for their God! Let it therefore raise up our souls to labour after God, and never rest till we have some interest in this great portion, of God being our God.

Devotional Readings taken from Puritan Richard Sibbes 'Refreshment for the Soul.'
A Heavenly Conference, pp. 117-20
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