You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound Psalm 4:7
For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women. Zechariah 9:17
Every semester, I get together a number of verses to hang on my wall that I want to internalize and keep coming back to over that season. The two verses above were the most contradictory seeming pair of the 14. The first verse undermines what the second verse seems to encourage. Reconciling the two, however, gives such a deep picture of joy and fulfillment.
God is good.
God is beautiful.
Grain flourishes.
Wine flourishes.
God gives more joy.
More joy.
As much as the young men flourish from grain, and women from new wine, the joy that the Lord gives is more.
I like that Psalm 4 isn't about rules. It doesn't condemn drinking or make our joy dependent on anything we do or don't do. It's about what God gives us, and so much of that is the freedom to truly enjoy His presence.
He gives us more joy.
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