16/10/2024
DAILY WORD OF LIFE
Friday 11th October 2024.
Enoch Makoko
DELIGHT IN GOD
"Delight yourself in the LORD, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart" Psalms 37:4 [AMP].
What does it mean to delight! To delight is to have or take great pleasure or joy or to enjoy. Therefore to delight in God is to have complete pleasure, joy and trust in Him. It's when your full attention is drawn to the LORD and find your satisfaction in Him.
Like the King Solomon said in Proverbs 23:26, "My son, give me your heart And let your eyes delight in my ways" (AMP). You delight in the LORD when you give Him all your focus. You lift yours off yourself and let God live your life. Like Apostle Paul declared, "I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me" (Galatians 2:20|AMP). Yes you delight in God when you're given to Him through Christ Jesus.
One of the most easy way to delight in God is through His. The Word of God reveals the mind of God. The Word gives direction and correction. When you find joy in His Word, it means you have joy in God. Apostle Paul again said in Romans 7:22, "For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man" (NKJV). He had found confidence, comfort and inner peace from the Word of God. The way you treat the Word of God reveals your standing with God. You can't find joy in God and yet His Word be hurtful, boring and snare to you. You ought to say like what the psalmist said inPsalms 119:47, "For I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love" (AMP). You delight in God by loving His Word.
From scripture we know that it's faith that pleases God (read Hebrews 11:6). Therefore your faith in God depicts your delight in Him. I love how Amplified Bible version puts it in Hebrews 10:38-39, "but My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man's relationship to God and trusting Him]; and if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My Soul has no delight in Him. But our way is not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [we are] of those who believe [relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by this confident faith preserve the soul" (AMP). When you live by faith you will live in the delight of the LORD.
The condition of the heart is revealed by what it gives and not what goes in (see Matthew 15:17-20). The heart will reveal your delight in God by what you're able to give. A good account is recorded in 1Chronicles 29:16-17, "O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name is from Your hand, and is all Your own.I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You" (NKJV). Their giving to God revealed how dependent and joyful they were in the LORD. They realize it was a pleasure to give back to God and they delighted in giving.
Delighting in God is not only what God requires and expects of you but also what you can give yourself as a gift. As a gift because it's through delighting in God that you show that you appreciate life He's given you. Delighting in God has a promise of making your desires successful. It's therefore for your own benefits to delight in God in name of Jesus Christ.
*AMEN*
*PRAYER*
For the LORD God is my rock, my foundation, my joy, my pleasure and my delight in Jesus Christ name. *AMEN*
*WORD_CHARGE*
Philippians 3:1
Hebrews 11:6
Matthew 15:17-20
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