By God’s grace I now know the fountain of everlasting joy.Īnd so I love to spend my days luring people into joy until they say with me, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple” (Psalm 27:4). I grieve often over the murmuring of my heart when I lose some earthly comfort or convenience. None of us has arrived at perfect satisfaction in God. He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. My wife is most honored when I say, “It makes me happy to spend time with you.” My happiness is the echo of her excellence. Do we feel most honored by the love of those who serve us from the constraints of duty, or from the delights of fellowship?
We all know this intuitively as well as from Scripture. And it is this enjoyment of God that makes all of our other responses truly glorifying to him. The essence of loving God is admiring and enjoying all he is. Loving God will include obeying all his commands it will include believing all his word it will include thanking him for all his gifts. In him - not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is! 1 Corinthians 7:35 - This I say for your own benefit not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted. This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him. And David was a man after God’s own heart. Only God will satisfy a heart like David’s. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. O God, you are my God earnestly I seek you my soul thirsts for you my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
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