GOD HIMSELF Is Your Reward.

Your exceedingly great reward!
(George Mylne, "Reposing in Jesus: Or, The True Secret of Grace and Strength" 1862)

"I am your exceedingly great reward! 
Genesis 15:1

Christian reader, GOD 
HIMSELF is your reward--
your exceedingly great reward. 
God has given HIMSELF to HIS 
people for an everlasting possession, 
from before the foundation of the world. 

HE made HIMSELF over, by the eternal 
covenant, as the sure inheritance of 
HIS people. HE gave HIMSELF to 
them in perpetuity, with all that 
HE IS, and all that HE HAS! 

That eternal transaction 
was a matter of free and 
sovereign grace!

What is it that comforts you in your 
troubles, lightens your labors, and 
helps you in your difficulties? 

Is not that JESUS HIMSELF 
is your exceeding great reward? 
It is not merely the promises--
not even the prospect of glory--
it is JESUS HIMSELF, as your 
very own possession, which 
constitutes your reward. 

To this you look--
on this you repose--
that JESUS is yours--
that you are JESUS'--
that JESUS and you
 are eternally one! 

If JESUS is your exceedingly 
great reward here--
then how much more so 
in the world to come!

HE will show you more and more of HIS fullness. 
HE will unfold to you the riches of HIS love. 
HE will open HIS arms to receive you. 
HE will take you into HIS very heart and soul. 
You shall be swallowed up in JESUS! 

What is true happiness? 
What is Heaven? 
What is glory to come? 
Is it not the Person of JESUS? 
To behold HIM with your own eyes;
to hear HIM with your own ears;
to feast forever on the divine 
radiance of HIS countenance; to forever 
to drink into the refreshments of HIS glory!

Oh Believer, this is what 
you have to repose in--
CHRIST has said, 

"I am your exceedingly 
great reward!"