Delight Yourself in the Lord

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119: 97

Have you ever thought of how possible it is to have the right desire? A desire that gives God no other option than to cause it to come to pass?

Coming across the text in Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things ....  Does not make the situation any easier for most of us to believe it is possible for a human to have a desire that God would have no option but to cause it to come to pass.

This train of thought is not any different from the thought of Nathaniel ,the brother of Philip; when he was told by his brother that they have found the Messiah  from  Nazareth, whom Moses the  prophet of God spoke about. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Said Nathaniel.

Like Nathaniel many of us do not believe that a good desire can proceed from the heart of a man. I have met Christians who still have this belief. I have heard preachers preach such sermons. If this is true, why will God ever promise to grant the desire of a man's heart?
Has He forgotten that this is man we are talking about?

Friends God is too God for a thought to skip His mind. He has never made a promise He cannot fulfill.

This truth should cause us to pay attention to the text in Psalm 37:4.  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He shall give you the desire of your heart.

The reason most of our desires are not coming to pass is because we have in our own ways reverse the lines in this text.

We have often times gone to develop a desire from something, someone outside His will and come to Him to cause it to come to pass.

To delight yourself in the LORD is to take pleasure in God's will and word. It is to make His word a priority in everything we wish for. When this becomes our habits we unknowingly begin to desire the very thing He desires. And when this is the case, having the desire of our heart become possible at all time, in every aspect of our lives.


Prayer; LORD teach me to delight in You, always in all aspect of my life. Amen

The Scripture- God’s Directives

Psalms 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Psalm 32:8

There are so many believers who do not have confidence in God. And this can be said to be true by the way they perceive and treat the very word of God.

We live in a society where people confuse the word for laws and as such finds it very difficult to live by its principles.

One of the greatest challenges of most present day believers is that they see the word of God as more of a restriction than it is a liberty and directives from Him on how to walk with Him.
This truth can be said to be responsible for the lack of influence most of us as believers have over our immediate family members and fellow neighbors.

Somehow, we have been  able to convince ourselves that by classifying the very word of God as a law, by selecting which part of it to believe and which not to believe we would become relevant to the people around us who are of different faith and to the world at large.
Again this sounds to me as a contradiction. We have become a hindrance to the very purpose for which we’ve been called, separated by God.

According 1 Peter 2:9, the believer is called out... to show forth His light....
By implication this simply means we cannot be of value and relevance to the world we live in as believers if we do not regard the word as God's directives.
We cannot be a light to a world full of darkness unless we are committed to remain the light we have be called to be.

As believers, an attempt to remove our saltiness in order to become relevant to a tasteless society is to make ourselves useless just like the tasteless society before God.

The ability of any believer to effect change and add value to his/her society is linked to his /her readiness to accept the word as God's directives on how to walk with Him.

Like the Psalmist put it in Psalm 119:105; Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. A path taken outside the directives of God is a path traded in darkness.

Friends none of us has within us the ability to lead a life void of darkness outside the perimeters of God's directives.

God's word is more of a directive on how to walk with Him than it would ever be a law book that we must obey in order to please Him.