“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4
The Psalmist is not promising that if we delight in God, we will get a million dollars. He’s telling us that if we truly delighted in the Lord — if we saw him as the infinitely valuable lover of our souls that He is — we would want nothing more than more of Him.
At dinner tonight, my daughter extolled the virtues of nachos. “Chips, cheese, and beans,” she declared. “They are so delicious.”
Indeed.
My wife started making nachos for dinner early in our marriage. I now make them. They are delicious every time.
I want to delight in God the way I delight in a plate of nachos. I want my daughter to delight in God the way she delights in nachos.
Nachos are a gift from God. That we can gain energy for our body from food that tastes that good is an act of absolute unmerited favor.
I properly delight in them when I use that delight as point of reference and comparison for measuring my delight in the one who made those nachos possible.
This probably wasn’t going through my daughter’s head, but I reminded her that we need to give thanks for how delicious they are.
I’ll give thanks tonight that she delights in something as simple as a nacho. I will pray tonight that she will see and delight in the infinite worth of the God who made her.