Be Delightful

“Delight yourself also in the Lord and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.” --Psalm 37:4 [AMP]
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These words are often misinterpreted and taken to mean that if you praise God just enough, He will give you what you want. But that is not it at all. The Psalmist is not advising that we hold out our hands like hungry children. Instead we are being admonished to come to know God in such an intimate way that our hearts become intertwined with His and His desires for us become our desires for ourselves.

And we do serve a benevolent and loving God who cares about our happiness but, not everything we want is in our best interest. He knows this and that is why it is in our best interest to closely commune with Him and allow Him to lead us down the path He has just for us. There is safety and liberty in His arms and His will and we should take care to remember that it is not always about us but it is always about Him being glorified in our lives.


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