Psalms 37:4
Psalms 37:4
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
We sometimes see our relationship with God as perpetual work and hardship, but that is not God’s plan for us. We are meant to enjoy God. We are meant to delight in Him. If we see spending time with God or working with God as a chore, we are just going to try to avoid it. When we avoid God, we try to make our own delights. Many stories in the Bible show us that trying to create our own pleasures only leads to destruction. Recall the story of the prodigal son who chose to leave the covering of his father (Luke 15:11-32). In the short term, he lived a fast-paced, expensive life. He made “friends” and lived well. But eventually, his delights ceased. He was sent to feed pigs, and no one gave him anything to eat. When we decide to author our own delights, we end up in the trenches with no evidence of our pleasures in sight. Not only does this verse show that delight is found in the Lord, but it also gives us a promise – we will receive the very desires of our hearts. When we truly rejoice or delight in the eternal things of God, our desires will begin to parallel His, and we will never go unfulfilled.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Psalms 33:11
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Esther 4:14
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?