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"They shall be abundantly satisfied "with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of thy pleasures." - Psalms 36:8.

The blessedness of God will be the blessedness of his people. Their purity shall be without stain, their love without limit; wherefore their happiness shall know no bound. Their character will correspond to the character of God; wherefore their felicity will be the same as his. Men, as they are generally, could find no satisfaction in God’s house, in the place where his glory has its highest revelation; nor is there anything attractive to them in the river of his pleasures. Satan has so vitiated their palate with the caustic of sin, that they have no faculty of appreciating the banquet that is spread in heaven. Even the Israelites preferred the leeks and onions of Egypt to the manna from heaven.

Happy are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. Give them the most exquisite viands that man can prepare, and their tears will fall as they eat; they long to arise and hurry themselves to some humble chamber where believers bow the knee before their heavenly Father and ask for his reviving grace. They have tasted of a particular food, and their whole nature has been brought under the enchantment of it; they disdain all that they formerly thought excellent; and never can they be satisfied till that heaven-born appetite brings them to the mansion of their Father, and to that garden where the saints walk in light and drink of the river of the pleasures of God.

The river of thy pleasures. " This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Thus saith the Eternal Father. What sayest thou? "In these things I delight," saith the Lord; "in loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness." What sayest thou? "As a bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." " The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him." Dost thou? We must be drinking even now of the river of the pleasures of God; then have we an assured hope that our thirst shall be fully slaked in the beatific future.

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