RTW May 10

Trust Leads to Delight

Trust in the Lord and do good.
Psalm 37:3

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

You can’t trust, delight, or commit in someone you do not know. You can’t know someone you don’t sit spend time with.

• Trust -Helps us delight in God (v3)
• Delight -Helps us wait on God (v4)
• Commit -Helps us trust God (v5)
• Be still -Helps us know God(v7)
• Wait -Makes us be still (v7)

Something New

This is a wonderful and even safe promise. The one who truly delights in the Lord will find their heart and desires changed, steadily aligning with God’s own good desires for one’s life. Thus, we see that finding delight in God is a key to a happy, satisfied life.

This shows that God intends to fulfill the heart desires of the redeemed man or woman of God. To be sure, it is possible for such desires to be clouded by sin or selfishness; yet even when so clouded there is almost always a godly root to the desire that is entirely in the will of God. The man or woman of God should find their rest in this, and leave aside worry and envy. (Guzik)

Most of all, it shows that when we delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us our delight. If He is our delight, He gives us more of Himself. “Longings fixed on Him fulfill themselves.” (Maclaren)

On Delight

• “Expect all thy happiness from him, and seek it in him” (Clarke)
• “It includes a deliberate redirection of one’s emotions…[such as] Paul and Silas in prison, singing as well as praying.” (Kidner)
• “We cannot delight thus without effort. We must withdraw our eager desires from the things of earth, fastening and fixing them on Him.” (Meyer)
• “In a certain sense imitate the wicked; they delight in their portion — take care to delight in yours, and so far from envying you will pity them.” (Spurgeon)
• “The reason many apparent Christians do not delight in God is that they do not know him very well, and the reason they do not know him very well is that they do not spend time with him.” (Boice)

Something to Do

Trust and delight.

 

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