Love Righteousness and Hate Wickedness

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions. - Heb 1:9

What is the secret to gladness? Loving righteousness and hating wickedness. This is not a natural rule though, because all the wickedness in the world would naturally make us sick. This is a supernatural rule. God sees our love for righteousness and blesses us with incomprehensible and otherwise inexplicable gladness. How can it be that one who loves righteousness can find joy in this wicked world? It's because his joy is not in the world but in God! His joy is in the him who rules forever and ever with the scepter of uprightness (v7), who loves righteousness and hates wickedness (v8). It's not earthly gladness; rather, gladness beyond earth.