Thoughts for another day

August 8, 2008

Today's verse: Ps. 37:4. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

The above is a marvelous promise of our Father God. But, for most of us beset with myriad problems and other burdensome issues, delighting in the God doesn’t come as a natural extension of personality or nature. We labor over it. The question is how do we delight in the Lord?

We need to look at the life of David who was used of God to write this promise in the psalm. David was a man who always held looking up to God as a privilege. When the story of David starts in the Bible, we read of the account of Goliath. Now, Goliath troubled the Israelites so much that they stood in awe of him. But when David was confronted with the situation, he said, ‘who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? You see how David changed the situation with the introduction of God in the picture and that He was their Leader’.

Forging an association with God whereby He’s always in our lives may be termed as delighting in Him. But leave alone doing that, we do the foolishness of questioning the premise that God is our all and He is there to help us. One of the ways we do that is by fretting and worrying our heads off. In the process, we lose, and then of course thump the blame on God. God is certainly not amused by our behavior but He lays great stress to His covenant, marked by the blood of His Son and He forgives.

Yet, when we show confidence in Him in the way we live and accept all He sends us – rain or shine, laughter or sorrow and so on, then we are delighting in Him and then His hand comes forth and touches us in unique ways in blessing, whereby our desires are granted. See, when Solomon delighted in His ways by asking for wisdom, God not only gave him that, but also fulfilled every desire in his heart! Isn’t it time we did the same?