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This morning my Bible reading included Psalm 37. Verse 4 is probably the best known of the Psalm. It says, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” I decided to make it the verse for my post on the CCFm Rise and Shine Facebook Page, but now! What to write? What does to delight yourself in the Lord mean? How do I know if I am getting my delighting right? What if my desires for my life are not God’s desires for my life? Suddenly, all these issues made writing about the verse very complicated, but I was running out of time, so I googled it and looked up some of what the commentators say. In the end I scrapped everything and after I got to work, I just ‘wrote from the heart’. This is what I said:
“The first thing that came to mind is the many women (and men) whose deepest desire is to get married. Surely, by ‘delighting themselves in the Lord’ that desire will come to pass? But it hasn’t worked that way. The Lord hasn’t sent a spouse along to satisfy your desire for marriage. And there’s a good reason for it. You have to be married to understand that no one can satisfy the deepest emotional needs of another. We are all human and I certainly can’t fulfill all of Mike’s desires. Neither can he fulfill all of mine. Only God can do that. The hole you have in your heart is not ‘spouse-shaped’ or ‘baby-shaped’ or ‘money-shaped’. The hole you have in your heart is God-shaped. Only He can fill it. He is the perfect fit. When we seek Him and respond to His amazing grace and love, we find ourselves delighting and we find Him fulfilling our deepest emotional needs and desires. So start delighting in the Lord today and feel His sweet hand of gentleness, soothing and peace come over you and your desires!”
I had a big response! Clearly, people needed to hear the message of husbands not being able to fulfill the needs of wives and vice versa. While singleness is not all it’s cracked up to be, with loneliness being top of the complaints, there are enough unhappy marriages in the world to dictate the suggestion that marriage is not all it’s cracked up to be either. The only conclusion I can draw is the one that brings me most satisfaction – that being the greatest joy, peace and abundance I find when IĀ spend time praying and reading the Bible. That is delighting myself in the Lord. When He gives me the desires of my heart – I find it is not the things I want, but the things I need. Many of them I don’t even know I need! I get contentment and that is worth more than money can buy!
As far as my marriage goes, I have been blessed with a humble godly gentleman. I am grateful to the Lord for sending me Mike and by delighting myself in the Lord, I hope to be a better wife to him. š The bottom line is we’re not perfect, so neither will our marriage be. We are just two sinners trying as hard as we can to be better and adoring one another for tolerating the other’s faults!
Whatever your status….(from TBN’s FB page)
The past is behind. A fulfilling future is ahead.
In the studio on a Tuesday is Wayne, the content producer of the Rise and Shine show…if you’ve never seen him…
Looking good Wayne!
And with that, I’m off to make tea.
God bless you loads!
In His Grip,
Helga xx š
Gratitude/Happiness Pic… breakfast with friends…
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