If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. Yet the Lord Almighty condescends to deal with us as if He could receive a benefit at our hands. Compare Luke 19:31, where the disciples are directed to tell the owner, of the donkey-colt, "The Lord hath need of him." This is His grace to us, that while we offer our all to Him, it is not Him but ourselves whom we benefit (Acts 17:25).

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