IV. And now the last point. After Boaz had reached the parched corn, we are told that "SHE DID EAT, AND WAS SUFFICED, AND LEFT." So shall it be with every Ruth. Sooner or later every penitent shall become a believer, every mourner a singer. There may be a space of deep conviction, and a period of much hesitation; but there shall come a season when the soul decides for the Lord, and cries, "If I perish, I perish. I will go as I am to Jesus. I will not play the fool any longer with my _buts_ and _ifs_, but since he bids me believe that he died for me, I _will_ believe it, and will trust his cross for my salvation." Whenever you shall be privileged to do this, you shall be "_satisfied_." "She did eat, and was sufficed." Your _head_ shall be satisfied with the precious truth which Christ reveals; your _heart_ shall be content with Jesus, as the altogether lovely object of affection; your _hope_ shall be filled, for whom have you in heaven but Christ? Your _desire_ shall be satiated, for what can even your desire hunger for more than "to know Christ, and to be found in him." You shall find Jesus charm your _conscience_, till it is at perfect peace; he shall content your _judgment_, till you know the certainty of his teachings; he shall supply your _memory_ with recollections of what he did, and gratify your _imagination_ with the prospects of what he is yet to do. "She was sufficed, and left." Some of us have had deep draughts of love; we have thought that we could take in all of Christ, but when we have done our best, we have had to leave a vast remainder. We have sat down with a ravenous appetite at the table of the Lord's love, and said, "Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me," and that infinite has been granted us. I have felt that I am such a great sinner that nothing short of an infinite atonement could wash my sins away, and no doubt you have felt the same; but we have had our sin removed, and found merit enough and to spare in Jesus; we have had our hunger relieved, and found a redundance remaining for others who are in a similar case. There are certain sweet things in the Word of God which you and I have not enjoyed yet, and which we cannot enjoy yet; and these we are obliged to leave for a while, till we are better prepared to receive them. Did not our Lord say, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now"? There is a special knowledge to which we have not attained, a place of intimate fellowship with Christ which we have not yet occupied. There are heights of communion which as yet our feet have not climbed--virgin snows of the mountain of God untrodden by the foot of man. There is yet a beyond, and there will be for ever.