Sweet Time With the Lord

Good morning and happy Friday! This is Michele sharing with you this morning. I am reading Psalm 37, which is rather long. There are a plethora of insights to be gained from this song but this is what spoke to my heart this morning:

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. (v. 4-5)

First of all, how do I delight in the Lord? Remember what it was like when you first met your spouse or, for the single people, the time you fell in love with someone? The longing for every minute you spend together, talking on the phone for endless hours about any and everything, taking extra time to make sure that you look wonderful for this person. Getting to know him or her was/is exciting and exhilarating! You took/take delight in that person, deriving great pleasure from being with him or her. That's just the same way that we should take delight in the Lord! The more time we spend with God, the better we will know him. Spending time with him should be as exciting as spending time with the person we are in love with. After all, God loves us even more! Knowing that gives me delight in him.

Does the second part of this verse mean that if we do this then God will give us anything we want? No, not hardly. Wouldn't that be nice? I do believe it means that the more time we spend with him, the more we will delight in him and desire him. This will then result in us wanting more and more of him! Don't we become like those we spend lots of time with? My heart will ultimately desire the things of God and not so much the things of this world. Therefore, he will give me the desires of my heart because my heart will desire him!!

As I spend more and more time with the Lord, I will learn to trust him in all areas of my life. God is trustworthy and is able to take care of all things much better than I am. I will begin to commit everything to his care because I will have experienced the true depth of his grace and love for me over and over again. What a relief to know that he will help me!!

Dear Father God, I want to desire you more and more every day! I want to take even more delight in you than I do in the person I am in love with. Help me to spend more time with you, talking with you throughout my day, sharing each and every detail with you. Give me a deep desire for your Word, Lord. Please lead me in your ways and fill my heart with delight and desire for you! Amen

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