Now, when the spouse was sitting down, restful and delighted, she was overshadowed. She said, "I sat down under his shadow." I do not know a more delightful state of mind than that of feeling overshadowed by our beloved Lord. I was black with sin, but His precious blood overshadowed my sin and hid it forever. My natural condition was that of an enemy to God, but He who reconciled me to God by His blood has overshadowed that also, so that I now forget that I was once an enemy in my joy of being a friend.
I am very weak, but He is strong, and His strength overshadows my feebleness. I am very poor, but He has all the riches of the universe, and His riches overshadow my poverty. I am most unworthy, but He is so worthy that if I use His name I will receive as much as if I were worthy. Indeed, His worthiness overshadows my unworthiness.
It is very precious to put this truth another way and say, "If there is anything good in me, it is not good when I compare myself with Him, for His goodness quite eclipses and overshadows it." Can I say I love Him? I do, but I hardly dare to call it love, for His love overshadows it. Do I think that I serve Him? I want to, but my poor service is not worth mentioning in comparison with what He has done for me. Have I thought that I had any degree of holiness? I must not deny what His Spirit works in me, but when I think of His immaculate life and all His divine perfections, where am I? What am I?
Have you not sometimes felt this? Have you not been so overshadowed by your Lord and hidden in Him that you became as nothing? I myself know what it is to feel that if I die in a poorhouse it does not matter, as long as my Lord is glorified. Men may slander me (Luke 6:22), if they like, but what difference does it make, since His dear name will one day be written in stars across the sky? Let Him overshadow me; I delight thatit should be so. Charles Spurgeon - Grace & Power - pgs 316-317.
