Psalm 4:7

Psalms 4:7 You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

There is nothing that causes the people of God to rejoice more than the light of His countenance and the enjoyment of His presence. Think of the joy that this brought Christ: Psalms 21:6 For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence. So it is with all His famiily. This causes a deep rooted delight and joy of God, a gladness of heart which swells inwardly until it bursts forth into outward doxology. Yet God must put this into the heart and no man can put this kind of savoring of God in Himself. It comes from Him and Him alone. Our wounded conscience is turned into a heart of pure exaltation. God causes our soul to pant after the presence of God and desire to commune with Him. This desiring (of that which we want most and do not have) and delighting (rejoicing in what we do have in His presence) are both marks of a child who desires to see his father come home and who rejoices in His presence. Both are emotions which we gain great pleasure from- expectation leading to realization of our greatest desire which causes our greatest delight.

May God grant us a greater measure of desire for Him and a greater delight in Him.