The Path of Joy

I was thinking today about the passage in Ps 16:11

"You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures." 

I have oft heard this quoted and applied to many different situations in life,  but in context it is talking about not fearing death because God won't leave us to rot. The word "path" jumped out at me. I am thinking that the joy comes as we travel this path and the full joy is at the end of that path when we are in His presence. It brings to mind the statement about Jesus going to the cross, (Hebrews 12:12) "...For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame,..." I did a bit of Greek word study on this. It is really cool when you pull together the meanings in the words. The verse phrases are in bold

• You reveal (make known, consider, show, cause to be known and understood) 
• the path of life to me (the path that the wanderer is traveling to the end point of life) 
• in Your presence - ( the place where I look on the faces (note, plural, possibly referring to trinity) A personal view, fully revealed ie, we will see Him face to face) 
• is abundant (fullness, it satisfies, makes me satiated, abounding, full of) 
• joy (mirth, gaiety, pleasure, glad result, rejoicing) 
• In Your right hand-( represents ownership, power, or control) 
• are pleasures (sweet, beautiful, singing, musical, delightful, lovely). 
• eternally (Perpetually, always, everlasting, continually with strength and victory.) 

 I mean, wow, that is way more joy than I have ever had. We need to remember that Gods promises are true but we only get a taste, a whiff of what will come to us perpetually forever. We endure the suffering and pain, the loneliness, the frustrations, the heart hurts, the losses, the misunderstandings, the ...... now because the little tastes of God's presence now will be HUGE and FOREVER... AND EVER.... AND EVER (as the Hallelujah chorus points out) 

 Let us not grow weary, let us run with our eyes fixed on our Hope, Jesus. Praying that we will come to life with our running shoes on and excited about the ways we will see in Jesus heart, each other’s hearts and be seen.