SCRIPTURE: : Psalm (NIV) 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. …
23 If the LORD delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm;
OBSERVATION: This Psalm gives me an assignment. I am to “delight” myself in the Lord. This is not something done to me, but something I choose to do. It is not something that is difficult to do, for God is so amazing! Our minds will never contain the whole of God. There will always be something new that will bring joy as discovered.
Delighting myself in God will definitely change the desires of my heart. They will change from being temporal things to eternal things! I will begin to see the eternal value of people and things around me. I will begin to desire the things that HE wants to do! It will be His joy to answer my prayers. Soon I will be living a life that God will delight Himself in me!!!
APPLICATION: Here is a worthy goal for Leon. To live my life in such a way that causes the LORD to delight in me. God causes me much joy! It is my pleasure to serve Him. He is obviously worthy of my attention. I delight in Him because of Him! I want Him to delight in me because of me. I want my choices to bring Him joy.
Surely, He weeps when He sees the world He created, and the people for whom His Son suffered on the cross…when He sees them ignoring Him and making such self-destructive choices. May we be the ones to bring Him joy.
PRAYER: Lord, I delight in you! You are awesome. You are perfect in all your ways. I pray that my motives and actions will bring you joy and you will delight yourself in me! Amen
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