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I know, this post is short, but a long day and an early morning tomorrow mean that I have to just drop a bit and take off. Check out this line from Spurgeon regarding the end of Psalm 4, which reads, "You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound."

"It is better," said one, "to feel God's favour one hour in our repenting souls, that to sit whole ages under the warmest sunshine that this world affordeth." Christ in the heart is better than corn in the barn, or wine in the vat. Corn and wine are but fruits of the world, but the light of God's countenance is the ripe fruit of heaven.

That isn't the way we would have said it, but we would say something similar, at least I would. I'd say that Jesus and His way of living are better to me that to sit at the beach w/ a pina colada. Salvation is better than all the best homes and cars that money can buy. It's one of the cliche Christian statements. Living that is hard though, is it not.