Lured and dazzled, the worldling pursues the phantom. By John McDuff. Psalm 16, verse 11. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Fullness of joy. Can that be said of anything on this side of heaven? There is a restless craving in the human bosom for something better than this poor world can give. There are aching voids, deep, yawning chasms in the soul of man, which the world and all its tinsel pleasures can never fill.

The worldling will cleave to worldly vanities as the apex of its pursuits. He imagines that happiness consists in gathering up earthy trifles. Lured and dazzled, the worldling pursues the phantom. But each successive failure more painfully convinces him that all worldly joy is a vain delusion.

Happiness, the object of his life search, is as far from him as ever. Only in heaven will the soul have, in the enjoyment of God, the perfection of bliss. All earthly happiness has its bounds and limits. It is only in heaven and in God's presence that bliss will be unbounded and eternal.

In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.