'Abundantly satisfied'

    'They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.' Psalm 36:8 (KJV)

       'They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.' Psalm 36:8 (KJV)

Don't you just love that verse! Makes you think of the Garden of Eden, doesn't it?

       That's what it's going to be and even more when God restores Paradise.       There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. Psalm 46:4 ESV And that river is described in the last chapter of the Bible:

       And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:1-2

      Jesus told the woman at the well, 'Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.' John 4:13-14 ESV

      Just as a spring constantly supplies water so also the Holy Spirit has an unlimited supply of life and strength for all those who have come to Jesus with their empty hands of faith in what He said and what He did.

'The river of thy pleasures.' The pleasure of knowing and having fellowship with Jesus Himself.

       “As they have the fruits of Eden to feed on, so shall they have the river of Paradise to drink from. God's everlasting love bears to us a constant and ample comfort, of which grace makes us to drink by faith, and then our pleasure is of the richest kind. . . . Heaven will, in the fullest sense, fulfill these words; but they who trust in the Lord enjoy the antepast even here. The happiness given to the faithful is that of God Himself; purified spirits joy with the same joy as the Lord Himself. 'That My joy may be in you, that your joy may be full.'

--Spurgeon, Treas. Of David, I, 2, 160

        Knowing God is what 'abundantly satisfies' us. And He is the only complete satisfaction in all of life. 'Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O God!'     And God saved the best until last: ^'As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.' Psalm 17:15