The Password 2

The Password 2

Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. Psalm 37:4 AMPC

As usual, David speaks here out of a personal encounter with God. A man's public testimony is a major reflection of his private life of devotion and encounter to and with God. You can't fake it; it is either you have it or you don't. The world has its delights, and it seeks to make them appealing to the people in the world.

The world defines success and impact by those delights, and natural man craves those things, and would sometimes sacrifice the eternal for the sake of temporal and earthly pleasures. The charge here is to delight in God, not anything else. When God is the delight, every other thing loses significance. When God is the focus, all other things pale in comparison or in importance.

What does it mean to delight in God? Could it mean that God is the only priority and focus of my life? Could it mean that I crave his word, his touch, his gentle voice? Could it mean that I strive to serve others through the gifts He has given me? When God takes over a heart, he leaves room for nothing else. If I am able to 'serve' God and still serve the world, then maybe what I hold isn't the real thing after all. The blessing of delighting in God is also made obvious. When your inner life loves the things of God, God sorts out the issues of your outer physical life.

When God is my only priority, God takes care of my life's priorities. When God is the focus, my heart will always seek after the things God loves and desires. If all I pursue are things I can see and spend, God has no place in my heart, and he will not share my heart with anyone or anything else. I must sort out the demands of my heart and know the difference between the important, the necessary and the absolute. God is the absolute; every other thing is secondary. His time of favour is here.