This morning during my prayer and reading time I was reminded of something very simple but profound. I was reading in Psalm 37. The verse that I focused on was verse 4. In this passage, the writer tells us that we should “delight” ourselves in the Lord and when we do we will receive the desires of our hearts.
On a cursory reading, we get the idea that if we follow God, God will make sure we get what we want. But when you look closer at the passage, that is not what the writer is saying at all. When he says “delight” he means more than give a cordial tip of the hat or an occasional prayer of thanks for what God does for us. The word delight carries the idea of complete enchantment – an all-consuming desire to please.
When we look at the context – the other verses around this one – we see that the writer is reminding us that when we make God the focus of all we do, when our lives revolve around pleasing God and doing what is good and right, then God will give us the desires of our hearts.
But here is the very simple yet profound idea the writer is communicating. When we live our lives with the one focus of pleasing God – really delighting in the Lord of all creation – then the desires of our hearts will line up with the plans God has for us.
When we live in God’s perfect will (as Paul would call it in Romans 12) then our lives will be full and our hearts content; because when we seek to please God with all we are – that is the reward we will receive.
Live delighted today!
Clay in the Hands 
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