" EUCHARISTIC it is indeed; for He gave thanks, and the very echoes of the thanks of Christ arise from our hearts; it is the soundings, and repeatings of His thanks that are making melody in our hearts to the Lord."
However destitute of internal joy the soul [of a believer) may be, it has an eternal inexhaustible source of joy outside itself, in Christ and the joy which God the Father has in Him.
God's word was given to Adam in Eden, to guide him how to guard and keep the life -which he had (Gen. 2:17); to us God's word is given to originate in us a new eternal life; born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you (1 Peter 1:23,25).