Delight Yourself in the Lord

Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4

Earlier today I was spending time with my Pastor and we were talking about this. We talked about how this passage might reference to ask God for anything and He will give it to you. The condition is in the first part, we are to delight ourselves in the Lord first. Then He will give us what we want.

I was saying that if our heart is the same focus as the Lord, then the desire will be to do His Will.

Tonight I was just having a chat with a brother and it dawned on me that lately my heart was troubled was perhaps I wasn't focus on His Will. We were discussing missional and intentional and I thought...wait..my Lord is calling, am I following?

It is crazy how the desire can fulfill people. Look at Paul the Apostle. He was so in tune that everything he considered important; his prestige, his credentials, his education, his experience he considered a lost. (Check out his resume in verse 5.)

If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. (Phillipians 3:4b-6)

Paul goes on stating:

⁷But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. ¹⁰I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Phillipians 7-11)

Paul was so satisfied with the Lord that he gave up everything he had. He considered everything else as rubbish. Not only that, Paul WANT to share the suffering with Christ and ultimately to die like Him (verse 10). Who wants to consider suffering as a joy? Only when one is so transformed and intune with the Lord, can one be willing to suffer as Christ would.

That's the power of the gospel. When we look at the Parable of Pearls and the Hidden Treasures, they all indicated that the person who sees the Kingdom of God will be transformed and give up everything for it (Matthew 13:44-45). Just as Paul considered everything he once own as lost and rubbish compare to Christ.

I am once reminded that My King is moving and He is calling...as such I better start following....