DELIGHT

Delight

The Lord tells us to delight in Him, and He will give us the desires of our heart. Yet this can be a difficult invitation while we are still living with the struggles of our fallen nature.

For years we walk under the blessing of God as He sustains us while we overcome our fallen nature. His grace carries us, His mercy restores us, and His goodness continually draws us to Himself.

Then a day comes when the relationship begins to change.

It is no longer centred on us. Our hearts begin to turn towards the One who loved us enough to free us from the cords of wickedness and set us upon the path that leads into His own heart.

Love matures.

It no longer asks first,

"What will You give me?"

Instead it begins to ask,

"What brings You joy?"

In the Song of Songs, the bride searches for her Beloved until she finds him. Her heart is no longer occupied with what he can give her. It longs for him.

Jesus reveals that same love towards the Father. He says,

"I always do the things that are pleasing to Him." (John 8:29)

His life was not centred on what He received from the Father, but on what delighted the Father's heart.

Perhaps this is where love reaches its maturity.

A heart that has become so at home with the Beloved that it naturally begins to delight in what delights Him.

The love story of the Bride and the Bridegroom becomes a living reality.

She entered as He invited her to stay.

Yet our soul has been shaped by years of living from our fallen nature. Delight does not always come naturally.

When the Lord Himself becomes our delight, the desires of our heart are no longer separate from Him. They are gradually shaped by relationship until our deepest desires begin to reflect what we have come to love in Him.

Sometimes delight is not something we must find. It is something we finally begin to see.

Jesus often drew people's attention to what was already around them. He said, "Look at the birds." "Consider the lilies." He did not create those things in that moment. He simply invited people to notice them.

Perhaps delight begins there.

What we discover is that what we have been seeking has quietly been before us all along.

The journey gradually becomes less about what God is doing through us and more about who He is to us.

Then, almost without realising it, the cry of our own heart becomes:

"That I may know Him..."(Philippians 3:10)