“Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.” Psalm‬ ‭43‬:‭4‬ ‭KJV‬‬. As the psalmist prays for God to lead him, he lets us see into his heart in regards to his attitude towards God. He says that God is his ‘exceeding joy’. This was what made his relationship with God so real and so wonderful. To him, the greatest joy of life was to know God and be able to experience God in a personal way. The good news is, that God is still the same! He still desires to be the exceeding joy of our lives just as then. And the more that we open our hearts to Him, the more personal time we spend with Him, the more we will experience the reality of this great joy in God. Most of religion today has settled for a form of religion that pacifies their conscience but leaves them still running after the world, where their real joy is. But may we, as true children of God, find in Jesus Christ our heart’s dearest treasure! And may we show to others that nothing in this world compares to the exceeding joy we find in our God. That is an important part of the testimony our lives can offer to souls bound by sin and false religion.