- Satisfies with Fatness
Psalm 36:7, 8
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
The promises for those people who place their trust in God’s protective covering are abundant and pleasant. People trust in God for protection because His love and kindness and goodness are exceeding excellent. Those trusters in God will receive a lot of rich and delicious food and a never ending flow of refreshing drink. God promises a “heavenly banquet” that greatly satisfies with fatness. “Fatness” means food that tastes wonderful and fills up but is still healthy and nourishing; it will not make one fat and unhealthy; it will not leave one bloated and satiated, just perfectly satisfied. “The river of God’s pleasures” must be thirst quenching, tasty, liquid refreshments that are continually running and never run dry. God promises to give us humans what brings pleasure to Him.
Banqueting on the fatness of His house and feasting on the river of His pleasures is a metaphor using physical terms that we can understand to refer to a spiritual life that we cannot yet understand. A “Messianic Wedding Banquet” certainly describes the indescribable joys of life with Jesus in heaven, after death. But there is also a “foretaste of the feast to come” that is enjoyed by the truster in the spiritual world in the inward life promised by Jesus, before death. This present spiritual banquet is Jesus Himself: (John 6:55-56) “Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him…. Whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me… Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” We do not wait for Jesus; we do not wait for this bread; we do not wait for this life: It is now; it is here; it is today; it is for present enjoyment. Eat, drink, be filled and be refreshed = believe in Jesus.