In other words, we are to have joy in doing the will of another and it requires an absolute self-surrender. Mental institutions, divorces, broken bodies, premature deaths, wasted living, anguished lives, corrupted children and broken generations. For Jesus it was not a grim obligation but a freely given self-abandonment to His Father. There is a delight in doing His will even when the fruit of it might not yet be visible or evident. You may not see it until eternity, but there is yet a delight in doing His will.
Delight is a synonym for joy.
There needs to be a restoration of delight, and not the least of the delights is the delight of the saints in the fellowship of the saints, enjoying the saints, not because they are clever or bright, but just because they are. The church of God and the fellowship of the saints is going to be one of our last days consolation. When every last thing goes and there is no television to look at or any other kind of thing, the saints themselves will be our delight. The enjoyment of the saints, just their presence, will be a life-giving thing. The key to joy, the thing that really unlocks and releases it is absolute self-surrender, absolute submission to the will of God absolute.