“One sight of God will satisfy a saint more than all the glory of heaven will do.

God is the glory of heaven. Heaven alone is not sufficient to content a gracious soul, but God alone is sufficient to content and satisfy a gracious soul.

God only is that satisfying good, that is able to fill, quiet, content, and satisfy an immortal soul. Certainly, if there be enough in God to satisfy the spirits of just men made perfect, whose capacities are far greater than ours (Heb. 12:23–25).

And if there be enough in God to satisfy the angels, whose capacities are far above theirs; if there be enough in God to satisfy Jesus Christ, whose capacity is unconceivable and unexpressible; yea, if there be enough in God to satisfy Himself, then certainly there must needs be in God enough to satisfy the souls of His people.

If all fulness, and all goodness and infiniteness will satisfy the soul, then God will. There is nothing beyond God imaginable, nor nothing beyond God desirable, nor nothing beyond God delectable; and therefore the soul that enjoys Him, cannot but be satisfied with Him.

God is a portion beyond all imagination, all expectation, all apprehension, and all comparison; and therefore he that hath Him cannot but sit down and say, I have enough (Gen. 33:11: Ps. 63:5, 6):

‘My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night-watches.’

Marrow and fatness cannot so satisfy the appetite, as God can satisfy a gracious soul; yea, one smile from God, one glance of his countenance, one good word from heaven, one report of love and grace, will infinitely more satisfy an immortal soul, than all the fat, and all the marrow, and all the dainties and delicates of this world can satisfy the appetite of any mortal man.

Jer. 31:14: ‘My people shall be satisfied with goodness, saith the Lord; and ‘my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus,’ (Philip. 4:19), saith Paul, that great apostle of the Gentiles.

God will fill up all, He will make up all, he will supply all the wants and necessities of his people. That water that can fill the sea, can much more fill a cup; and that sun which can fill the world with light, can much more fill my house with light.

So that God that fills heaven and earth with his glory, can much more fill my soul with his glory.

To show what a satisfying portion God is, He is set forth by all those things that may satisfy the heart of man, as by bread, water, wine, milk, honours, riches, raiment, houses, lands, friends, father, mother, sister, brother, health, wealth, light, and life.

And if these things will not satisfy, what will?

It is enough, says old Jacob, that Joseph is alive, (Gen. 45:28); so says a gracious soul, It is enough that God is my portion.

A pardon cannot more satisfy a condemned man, nor bread an hungry man, nor drink a thirsty man, nor clothes a naked man, nor health a sick man, than God doth satisfy a gracious man.”

–Thomas Brooks, “A Matchless Portion,” in The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 2, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/1980), 2: 32-33. Brooks is preaching from Lamentations 3:24.