4. Then will I go unto the altar of God. If David
might be permitted to return, it would not be his own house which would be his
first resort, but the altar of God. With what exultation should believers draw
near to Christ, who is the antitype of the altar! Unto God my exceeding joy.
It was not the altar as such that the psalmist cared for, but fellowship with
God himself. What are all the rites of worship unless the Lord be in them? God
is not David’s joy alone, but his exceeding joy; not the fountain
of joy, the giver of joy, or the maintainer of joy, but that joy itself. The
margin has “The gladness of my joy,” that
is, the soul, the essence of my joy. To draw near to God, who is such a joy to
us, may well be the object of our hungering and thirsting. Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee. When God fills us with joy we ought ever to pour
it out at his feet in praise, and all the skill and talent we have should be
laid under contribution to increase the divine revenue of glory. O God, my God. How he dwells upon the name which he loves so well! To have God in
possession, and to know it by faith, is the heart’s heaven.
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