Happy in God

Look at David, happy in God when conveying the ark home. What an "object" in the thoughts of others this made him! Look at him again when, under conviction in the day of Oman's threshing-floor, how full of humiliation and yet of self-sacrifice he was.
The congregation of Israel was happy in God in the day of the coronation of David; how large-hearted they were. And the princes of Israel, how happy they were in the day of dedicating the house of God with David (1 Chron. 29).
Peter, in the hour of his conviction, was without care as to whether the boat sank or not.
We see Zacchæus interested in inquiring after Jesus; how heedless of the crowd and of the tree he was. Then, when happy in Jesus, he was heedless of the injurious speeches of the people.
So it was with the eunuch when, as an inquirer, he was not moved by the strange and sudden appearance of a stranger. Then, when he was satisfied, he was not moved by the still more strange and sudden disappearance of his companion.
When the Galatians apprehended Jesus at the first, see what manner of "blessedness" was among them (Ch. 4). When the Hebrews were "illuminated," what unstinted joy leading to self-sacrifice was in them (Heb. 10)!
Those instances illustrate what I have suggested: when the Lord really becomes the object, how commanding a relation to our hearts He fills and maintains. Others become secondary.