Psa. 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
David really got it! He could have lost everything and still been happy. He had learned to be happy in exile or to be happy in the King’s palace. What was the source of his joy? He tells us clearly in today’s verse; God Himself was David’s joy. It wasn’t because the Lord had given him victories, great wealth, unprecedented talents, or even the King’s throne. David had more than all of those gifts, he had God Himself in his life. Paul said the same thing. He said he had learned the secret of happiness. He was happy in front of crowds and just as happy in prison. You say you don’t believe it? Maybe that’s because you haven’t tasted what David or Paul had tasted. The good news is that you can. Here is how Jonathan Edwards described this happiness.
“When so great and holy a God dwells among a people, he not only able to supply them with all good, but he himself is the sum of all good. God is theirs, and therefore they are happy, if they have nothing else. If all other things fail, the enjoyment of God is sufficient to make them completely happy. They that have God for their portion, they have a sufficient portion. Such a people may well glory in their portion, and make their “boast in the Lord” [Psalms 34:2], and say, “The Lord is the portion of our inheritance and our cup: thou maintains our lot. The lines are fallen unto us in pleasant places” [Psalms 16:5–6]. “Whom have we in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that we desire beside thee” [Psalms 73:25].”
This is that unexplainable aspect of our Christian faith. There are some things so special that they can’t be explained; they have to be experienced for ourselves. I thought I knew about the anointing and even wrote a book about the Holy Spirit in my early days as a minister. That was good but I really had no idea what was really available to us. Today, I at least know enough to tell you that your thinking and my thinking is way to small. The Lord is more real, more powerful, more available, and more indescribable than we can imagine. Did I say more available? Absolutely!!! Draw near and you may get more than you think.
