Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- So how do we delight ourselves to the Lord?
- What is the meaning to delight in something?
If you look into a dictionary, it gives you: ‘to take / great pleasure or joy.’
So what again is to take great pleasure or joy in the Lord about? If you look into the whole passage carefully, David was actually asking people to do it. From the top to the bottom, he was asking his people to do it!
So what is it about the Do’s and the delight got to do with each other? In other words David is asking that we need to delight (to take / great pleasure or joy) in the ways of the Lord!
The ways of the Lord are:
“Praise the Lord. * Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands.” - Psalm 112:1
“Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.” - Psalm 119:35
“for I delight in your commands because I love them.” - Psalm 119:37
Here are three different levers of finding delight (to take / great pleasure or joy) in His commands.
1. First finding great delight in his commands
Knowing that his commands are there for us to live a life that is holy and pure so that we could be close to his footsteps, so finding his commands is a great joy because we are able to walk closely with God
2. Asking for direction
Some times in our lives the direction of where we want to go doing something and the direction of what God wants us to do may not be the same, God been God himself gives us the free will of doing our things, but doing so we have to complete the mission in a longer time!
E.g.:
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev. - Genesis 12:9
Here you see that Abram left his hometown toward Negev but while he was sojourning in the land, there was a great famine. So Abram brought Sarai out with him to Egypt. It was not the plan of God, but been a ONE who gives free will, God let Abram do as he wish but after going through 10 whole verses of what happen and amazing God was the person who help him got out. And from there…
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. – Genesis 13:1
Abram when back to the place he once started! So by seeking God, asking for direction may help us been surer of what is it to do next without going through a detour and coming back to the place we once started.
3. Love his commands
Why love his commands?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 1:1
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, * who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:14
Jesus is the living words of God. Jesus is God. By loving Jesus, do we not love His Words because the Word is He!
So loving his commands is just as loving Him Himself.
So delight in this context have three levers
- Finding great delight
- Asking for direction
- Love his commands
Now, the next part is
‘He will give you the desires of your heart.’
- What is ‘the desires’? David was talking about.
- Is it the same of the desires of the world?
In the first part we talk about following closely to his commands, by doing so we not longer do things for ourselves by for Him who is greatly to be praise! Amen.
The desire here David was talking about is the desires God has for us. So the desires God have for us is not what the world have because God is not from the world neither are we or should we be of the world but only in the world because we are still dwelling here.
Can you image how powerful it is?
We find great delight in his commands, walking His ways and the desires of our heart is also what God desires for us! Would He not greatly give it to us?
When two great fires come together, you have an explosion of passion after will never cense. When the consuming fire burns, everything beside will be consume and the fire around it will burn stronger each moment.
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
-Psalms 37: 4
So first we must Find great delight (great pleasure or joy) in his commands, Ask for direction constantly and Love him and God will give us the desire which is what He desires of us as well that is in our heart.
The three points to this verse is:
1. Find
2. Asking
3. Love
I pray that we would find, ask and love not only in God but also with one another, that we no longer do things for our desires but His.
Ah Pa, I thank you for your wisdom…
Lord I ask that in the period would we find great delight in you, would we continue asking for your counsel not only when we are lost but even when we are not lost I pray that its you, we will seek. I ask that even above everything would we love you more than another thing, would you be the true lover in our life. Because Lord you say, ‘whoever know you know love and whoever do not know you do not know love because you are love’ Lord I know that our love can only exist if you are in us, without you there is no true love then our love only comes for the whole which cannot last. Because this world will fade and soon it would be forget together with it. But you are eternal, everlasting and will never be, could never be, shall never be forgotten because you called yourself “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh” אהיה אשר אהיה
"I will be what I will be" which in hebrew means ‘I am The Existing One’ so lord you can not pass for you are the Existing One!
AMEN...
Reference:http://www.blueletterbible.org/index.html
- So how do we delight ourselves to the Lord?
- What is the meaning to delight in something?
If you look into a dictionary, it gives you: ‘to take / great pleasure or joy.’
So what again is to take great pleasure or joy in the Lord about? If you look into the whole passage carefully, David was actually asking people to do it. From the top to the bottom, he was asking his people to do it!
So what is it about the Do’s and the delight got to do with each other? In other words David is asking that we need to delight (to take / great pleasure or joy) in the ways of the Lord!
The ways of the Lord are:
“Praise the Lord. * Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands.” - Psalm 112:1
“Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.” - Psalm 119:35
“for I delight in your commands because I love them.” - Psalm 119:37
Here are three different levers of finding delight (to take / great pleasure or joy) in His commands.
1. First finding great delight in his commands
Knowing that his commands are there for us to live a life that is holy and pure so that we could be close to his footsteps, so finding his commands is a great joy because we are able to walk closely with God
2. Asking for direction
Some times in our lives the direction of where we want to go doing something and the direction of what God wants us to do may not be the same, God been God himself gives us the free will of doing our things, but doing so we have to complete the mission in a longer time!
E.g.:
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev. - Genesis 12:9
Here you see that Abram left his hometown toward Negev but while he was sojourning in the land, there was a great famine. So Abram brought Sarai out with him to Egypt. It was not the plan of God, but been a ONE who gives free will, God let Abram do as he wish but after going through 10 whole verses of what happen and amazing God was the person who help him got out. And from there…
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. – Genesis 13:1
Abram when back to the place he once started! So by seeking God, asking for direction may help us been surer of what is it to do next without going through a detour and coming back to the place we once started.
3. Love his commands
Why love his commands?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 1:1
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, * who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:14
Jesus is the living words of God. Jesus is God. By loving Jesus, do we not love His Words because the Word is He!
So loving his commands is just as loving Him Himself.
So delight in this context have three levers
- Finding great delight
- Asking for direction
- Love his commands
Now, the next part is
‘He will give you the desires of your heart.’
- What is ‘the desires’? David was talking about.
- Is it the same of the desires of the world?
In the first part we talk about following closely to his commands, by doing so we not longer do things for ourselves by for Him who is greatly to be praise! Amen.
The desire here David was talking about is the desires God has for us. So the desires God have for us is not what the world have because God is not from the world neither are we or should we be of the world but only in the world because we are still dwelling here.
Can you image how powerful it is?
We find great delight in his commands, walking His ways and the desires of our heart is also what God desires for us! Would He not greatly give it to us?
When two great fires come together, you have an explosion of passion after will never cense. When the consuming fire burns, everything beside will be consume and the fire around it will burn stronger each moment.
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
-Psalms 37: 4
So first we must Find great delight (great pleasure or joy) in his commands, Ask for direction constantly and Love him and God will give us the desire which is what He desires of us as well that is in our heart.
The three points to this verse is:
1. Find
2. Asking
3. Love
I pray that we would find, ask and love not only in God but also with one another, that we no longer do things for our desires but His.
Ah Pa, I thank you for your wisdom…
Lord I ask that in the period would we find great delight in you, would we continue asking for your counsel not only when we are lost but even when we are not lost I pray that its you, we will seek. I ask that even above everything would we love you more than another thing, would you be the true lover in our life. Because Lord you say, ‘whoever know you know love and whoever do not know you do not know love because you are love’ Lord I know that our love can only exist if you are in us, without you there is no true love then our love only comes for the whole which cannot last. Because this world will fade and soon it would be forget together with it. But you are eternal, everlasting and will never be, could never be, shall never be forgotten because you called yourself “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh” אהיה אשר אהיה
"I will be what I will be" which in hebrew means ‘I am The Existing One’ so lord you can not pass for you are the Existing One!
AMEN...
Reference:http://www.blueletterbible.org/index.html
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