Our Delight

"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."
Psalm 37:4

Sometimes the simplest of statements bear the strongest message. This is one of those statements. It is a message that David lived for the entirety of his life. King David had one of the sweetest and most unique relationships with God that has ever been described. His life was an open book. It has been chronicled in detail in the pages of the Old Testament. Of David, God said: "I have found David, son of Jesse a man after my own heart." (Acts 13:22). He was an incredible man and his success was built on one thing: He delighted himself in the Lord.
    So much of the time, we ask God to give us the desires of our hearts. We do this without giving thought to the fact that we must first delight ourselves in him. When we delight in God, we begin to align with his will. As we spend time with him, we begin to understand his will better. Our lives mesh with his will as we understand his personality, his heart, and his presence. These things can only be found as we spend time with him daily. It is in these times of intimacy that we find delight in him. We must realize that our delight is not found in anything else. We may enjoy other things, but these can never take the place of the closeness we have with God. In him alone is our delight.
    Everyone has desires. All of us have things in our hearts that we long for. When we delight in him, we lose the mentality that God is a great vending machine. He does not exist to give us all that we want. In fact, we exist to live in him, through him, and for him. Once we begin to delight in him, we will change our perspective. We will begin to desire what he desires. And then he will give us the desires of our hearts because they match his.
    I encourage you to take time to be with God. When you do this, you will find your delight in him. I am convinced that King David learned to delight in God when he was just a boy. As he sat on the hillsides watching over his father's sheep, he experienced God. He saw nature, he saw the universe, and he rested in the presence of God. This became his joy and much later, he would pen the words of Psalm 37. So like David, let us all delight ourselves in God. Then he will give us all that we desire.