“Delight yourself in the Lord and He
will give you the desires of your heart.”
Though this verse is short, and, on
the surface, seems simple, if we look a little deeper we find it is not simple
at all. This verse promises us the desires of our hearts, but first it gives us
one condition –we must first delight ourselves in the Lord. So, what does it
mean to delight ourselves in the Lord? In Deuteronomy 1:32-36 it says, “In
spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on
your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for
you to camp and to show you the way you should go. When the Lord heard what you
said, he was angry and solemnly swore: ‘Not a man of this evil generation shall
see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, except Caleb son of
Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he
set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’” When God led
the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised Land, He promised them that
He would deliver the inhabitants of the land over to them, but they were
afraid. Only two of the men –Caleb and Joshua—trusted in the Lord with all of
their hearts. They delighted themselves in the Lord, following after Him
wholeheartedly. Their lives were so devoted to the Lord that His path became
the desire of their hearts.
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