What Is Our Delight?
I love the Psalms of David. I think I could dwell in the Book of the Psalms all the days of my life .
David, a man, with a heart after God, who stumbled, who made mistakes, who fell at times, but was quick to repent, to turn to God, to turn to His Father and ask forgiveness and to move on.
He was a man like us. I think that is why we as men and women, young and old can identify with Him because he was like us. He had times of fear, times of joy, times of doubt, times of praise and worship, times of falling on His face before the Creator of Heaven and Earth. He always turned back to God.
In Psalms 1:1-3 in the Amplified Bible David says blessed, happy, fortunate, enviable, prosperous is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly, following their advice. Rather he delights and desires the law, the word of God, he is one who walks in the ways of the Lord.
He goes on to say that we are to meditate on the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God, that we are to ponder (my favorite word) and study the word habitually, that we are to dwell in the word, in His presence, that the word becomes a reality in us, that in the word of the Lord we find freedom, understanding, knowledge.
That as we come to the Lord with an open heart, as we yield to the Spirit of the Lord, that He will reveal Himself to us, often times in simplicity so that we can apply the word of God to our lives. That it is our operating manual.
He goes on to say, that we shall be like trees, planted and tended by the streams of water, the presence of the Lord, that which will refresh us, will give us understanding, that our minds, our hearts, our soul and spirit will be refreshed by the water of the word.
As we spend that time with the Lord, as we ponder His word, it will bring forth fruit in due season, and it will be life to others as we share those things that the Lord has made real in our lives as we walk with Him, as we go through the trials of life, the dealings, as we mature little by little, we will be able to share with others that which has been made real in our life, not theory but the life changing power of the word of God.
His word will not fail, and we will be brought to maturity, but that comes by delighting ourselves in the Lord, in His Word and in His presence and learning to be real in the Lord and to share that reality with others.
Let us take time to delight in the Lord, to delight in His Word. Let us exhort, lift up and encourage one another, let us ponder what it means to know Him, to know the Lord, to come to a place of intimacy, of allowing the Lord to reveal Himself daily to us as we come into His presence.
Let His Word be as a seed planted by God and watered by the Holy Spirit, that it will come forth in power and strength and as a sweet fragrance in our lives, that will draw others to want to know what it is in us that gives us the strength to walk the path that we are on.
Till later,
Paul