Most people's joys are of creature origin. God is unknown in their experience, and joy in Him a thing impossible. It is the mission of Christ, through the Gospel, to reach men to rejoice in God. He is from everlasting to ever lasting. Man dieth and wasteth away.
Men appreciate intrinsic excellence in small things.
No wonder that His invitations to eternal fellowship with him should be qualified with the request that He should be first. No wonder that His advances to us are so planned that no flesh should glory in His presence. No wonder that evil should prevail when sin against His holy name is so rampant in the earth. Lord, lift upon us the light of Thy countenance. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and all the upright in heart shall trust in Him.