RTW August 23

My Heart’s Delight

I will defile my Temple, the source of your security and pride, the place your heart delights in.
Ezekiel 24:21

 

 

My Takeaways

Something to Old

God wants to be known and will go to extreme measures for us to know Him.  He has taken extreme measures with Ezekiel’s wife, just so Ezekiel can be an example of mourning for His people, and for them to know that He is God.

What is the source of my security?

  • God
  • My husband
  • Our future as a married couple and a family
  • God’s Word
  • The seemingly “certain” things in life: home, a job, health

Am I proud?  Of what?

  • My marriage
  • My family
  • The few accomplishments I have made.
  • My relationship with Christ

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. (NIV)  Psalm 37:4

Something New

 

Something to Do

 

 

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6 Comments

  1. Thanks Wendy for today’s lesson! I really enjoyed it. I love Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Thanks for the new meaning of this verse that when we delight in God His desires become our desires of our heart and He doesn’t give us what we want if we delight in Him. My something to do- Is to delight in God everyday and make the desires of my heart be His desires for me and to keep Him first and focus on Him. He is all I need and He is enough and I want God to be my security.

    1. Natalie thank you for pointing this out on Psalm 37. I love this Psalm too. And it took me a while to see that God would change my heart into desiring His desires and not the desires that I think I need… I have to trust God by delighting in Him and see His desires change the desires of my heart into good and Godhonouring desires…

  2. I have been a reader and follower for a long time, though haven’t commented often. I absolutely love this study, it has been a great source of hope. I am learning today to put my security in the Lord, and the Lord alone. My marriage of 17 years is ending after finally breaking free of years of emotional abuse. I kept my children and I in it as long as I could, partly because of the security I placed in being married. But the Lord has been faithful in leading me through this. I need to let go of the security I found in marriage, and put my trust fully in Christ alone. If you could, would you lift my children and I up in prayer? That God would intervene in the courts and be merciful in granting us favor in the placement of my children, and that I would look to Jesus for all I need. Thank you dear friends.

  3. My Takeaways: Like Wendy said today’s passage was difficult.

    Something Old: Reading chapter 24:15-17 was difficult. I guess I’ll just have to trust that God was working for the ultimate good of his people even in the midst of all this tragedy. Achieving good often means suffering in the short term, but I must always trust in what is to come and one day be able to see that the suffering was worth it. After Jerusalem’s fall people would finally realize that the Lord had spoken truths through His prophets.
    These truths would lead the people to trust Him for salvation, the greatest good for us all.

    Something New: Out of the darkest days of Israel’s history come some of the brightest promises of redemption and restoration. Jeremiah speaks of Judah’s return. Ezekiel speaks of the new covenant. Through all the hardships God was able to turn it around for good.

    Something To Do: When it is hard to understand God’s ways remember the cross.

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