Psalm 37:4

Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4

Sometimes the scriptures we are so familiar with or even have memorized are the ones we either take for granted or they lose their meaning and application over time. I thought it would be beneficial to revisit our Psalm for today. We need to be reminded that God is desirable and delightful. He is the perfection of grace, compassion, mercy, kindness, patience, and love. Who wouldn’t gain great joy and delight in having a relationship with someone like that? And yet when things go wrong, we tend to get occupied with the problem and forget who He is. 

Look at Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail (Acts 16). At midnight with their feet in stocks and their backs bleeding from the beatings, they decided to delight in the Lord and God in turn busted them loose. When my first wife died at 26 and I was 31, so many of my peers were concerned when I wanted to keep my regular routine and sing with the worship team that next Sunday. But I could think of no better place to be then delighting in the Lord through worship. “Naked I came into this world and naked I go out, blessed be the name of the Lord.” 

In turn He promises to give us the desire of our hearts, but this does not mean that God will give us any foolish thing we may long for. It means that if we are truly delighting in God and longing for God, He will give us more of Himself, and in this we’ll find riches that are greater than anything we can imagine.

Remembering how delightful He is,

Pastor Gerard Deleeuw