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I. WE OUGHT TO COMMUNE WITH JESUS OF ALL THAT IS IN OUR HEART.

1. Tell Jesus all that is in your heart, for neglect of intercourse with Christ, of the most intimate kind, is ungenerous towards him.

2. And we must tell him all that is in our heart, because to conceal anything from so true a friend betrays the sad fact that there is something wrong to be concealed.

3. If we cannot tell Jesus all that is in our heart, it shows a want of confidence in His love, or His sympathy, or His wisdom, or His power.

4. I am quite certain that if you will carry out the plan I am commending to you, it will bring you great ease of mind; whereas, if you do not, you will continue to have much uneasiness.

5. If you do not come to Jesus and commune with Him of all that is in your heart, you will lose His counsel and help, and the comfort that comes from them.

6. Sometimes our habit of reticence towards Jesus is aggravated by our eagerness to tell our troubles to others. In the time of trial we often imitate King Asa, who, when he was sick, "sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians."

II. WE NEED NOT CEASE COMMUNING WITH CHRIST FOR WANT OF TOPICS.

1. There are, first, your sorrows.

2. Then, also, tell him your joys, for He can have aa much true fellowship with the joyous as with the sad.

3. You may also go to Jesus and tell Him all about your service.

4. Then, next, go and tell Jesus all your plans

5. When you have any successes, go and tell Him. The seventy disciples returned to Jesus with joy, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name."

6. And when you have any failures, — when your hopes are disappointed, — go and tell it all to Jesus.

7. Tell Him all your desires. If thou desirest anything that thou oughtest to desire, and mayest desire, let Him know it. Tell Him also all your fears. Tell Him that you are afraid of falling.

8. Tell Him all your loves.

III. WE SHALL NEVER CEASE COMMUNING WITH CHRIST FOR WANT OF REASONS.

1. For, first, it is most ennobling to have fellowship with the Son of God; "and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."

2. It is also highly beneficial to commune with Christ.

3. How consoling it is to do this! You forget your griefs while you commune with Him. How sanctifying it is! A man cannot take delight in sin while he walks with Christ. How delightful it is, too, to commune with Jesus! There is no other joy that is at all comparable with it, and it prepares us for the higher joys above.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

WEB: She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.