Are you enjoying God? Are you enjoying all the trimmings? By that I mean the things that please God—the things that God provides to you—the word He speaks into your heart—and the fellowship you have with Him. I want to be a person who lives in a state of delight. To delight is to be happy about or to get great pleasure from. Our relationship with God should bring us more satisfaction, more pleasure, more joy than any other relationship or possession we have. When people view God and church as just a duty to be performed, what happens? They slowly reduce their involvement to a bear minimum. Churches all over America are a living testimony to that fact. For a very large number of people, Christianity is a two hour commitment per week—and some of them are hardly awake even during the two hours. There are 168 hours in a week. So those two hours equal less than 2% of the person’s time. That’s what duty leads to. And that’s why our text focuses upon a higher motivation than duty. “Delight yourself in the Lord…” God can safely satisfy the desires of anyone who is truly delighting in Him because those desires will be according to His will. The key to enjoying life is not found in getting God to give us what we want. It’s found in learning to want what a loving God is longing to give us!
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:57:53 +0000
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