4. Delight thyself also in the Lord. Make Jehovah the joy and rejoicing of your spirit. Bad men delight in
carnal objects; do not envy them if they are allowed to take their fill in such
vain idols. Fill yourself with your sublimer portion. The wicked delight in
their portion; take care to delight in yours, and so far from envying you will
pity them. There is no room for fretting if we remember that God is ours, but
there is every incentive to sacred enjoyment of the most elevated and ecstatic
kind. Every name, attribute, word, or deed of Jehovah should be delightful to
us, and in meditating thereon our soul should be as glad as is the epicure who
feeds delicately with a profound relish for his dainties. And he shall givethee the desires of thine heart. Those who delight in God desire or ask for
nothing but what will please God; hence they may have what they will. Our
innermost desires are here meant, not our casual wishes; there are many things
which nature might desire which grace would never permit us to ask for; these
deep, prayerful, asking desires are those to which the promise is made.
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