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“Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased” (Psalm 4:7).
This verse is very searching to our hearts, but also very encouraging. Many years ago, when I was young, we had an older brother in Christ who used to paraphrase this verse like this — “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than if I got an increase in my salary.” (In the days when this psalm was written, most Israelites were farmers, but today most of us work in a different way.) He also used to remind us that “happiness is a state of soul, not a question of circumstances.”
If we are always thinking of getting ahead in this world, we will miss the joy of learning from our difficult circumstances, and getting the blessing from them. If we are enjoying the things of Christ in our hearts, we will have a joy that nothing else can match. We will have much more gladness than if we had more things in this world!
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