Delightful
Psalm 37: 4 – 6
Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it. And He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
Verse 4 is often quoted but I wanted you to see it in a larger context. First of all, these are the verses which follow June 2nd’s Word of the Day about being jealous of people who seem to be enjoying life’s good things but seem to have done little to earn them. God tells us to pay no attention to evil doers nor be envious of them, but rather to trust in Him. Then He says to delight in Him and He will give you the desires of your heart. So, rather than looking at the prosperity and success of the wrong doers, look to Jesus, delight in Him and He will give you your desires. And yours won’t be fleeting like that of the evil doers.
Secondly, commit your plan to Him. You have things you want, goals you would like to achieve. Well, commit all those ideas and plans to Him. Lay them before Him. He has the strength and wisdom to bring them to pass. What’s more, He just may have a better plan. Trust in Him, lay your hopes and desire before Him and He will bring it to pass.
Now here is the hardest part of it. Once you have committed your way to Him, let trust have its full measure. More often than not, answers do not appear immediately. It is what you do while you are waiting for Him to bring it to pass that has the greatest influence on your outcome. Don’t wait to “see” what God is going to do. Go ahead and start declaring it from the beginning. Do not trust in your eyes. Trust in your God. Your success is going to be so great that it will be as bright as the noon sun. Those people that you once envied will be as nothing. They will envy you. And when you are enjoying the desires of your heart, remember the God of your heart who brought it to pass.
