Wednesday, February 17, 2010

"delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." psalms 37:4

what does that mean "delight yourself"?

noun 1. a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job. 2. something that gives great pleasure

verb (used with object) 3. to give great pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment to; please highly

–verb (used without object) 4. to have great pleasure; take pleasure (fol. by in or an infinitive)

still not exactly sure, but the word pleasure keeps coming up. just like my children and caroline give me pleasure, we must give the LORD the same pleasure. the picture at the top of my blog is caroline climbing up some stairs in her backyard. there are a couple of steps that are broken. i wonder if that is how we delight ourselves in the LORD as we journey through life. hitting all those broken steps, but continuing to climb upward closer to him. parts of our lives are easy climbing, but we miss a step and fall back down a few. he picks us up and helps us get through the brokenness and onto the next step. the hardest part of being a parent is watching my children fall and hurt, but i know i have to stand back and allow them to fail. i am there afterward to help them up.i know i stay on that staircase, and my father continues to lift me from my brokenness and heartbreaks.

so, do i delight myself? or the LORD? or both. still not too sure

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