See THe MOON!

Look ! The Moon!!!

Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” 

I have a confession to make, I really don’t know that I demonstrate delight in my belief, worship and adoration for the Lord. OK, I’m being a little hard on myself, but honestly, I fall short in delighting in the Lord.  I mean I know what “Delighting” is. Delighting is the joy I feel when family gets together. Delighting is the feeling I get when I spend time with my grandchildren. Delighting is what I feel when I ride in a brand new car fresh off the lot. Delighting is when I pay off a credit card or car loan. I experience delight when I read a great book or see an awesome movie. So I know what delight is.  The level of delight for my God simply falls short compared to the delights that I have just mentioned.

I will always remember my two granddaughters when they were 2 and 3 years old. They came over for dinner one night and we sat and talked and read books until about 9PM.  Finally their father and my youngest son Jordan said that it was time for them to go.  So we packed up, put shoes on, gave our huggs and headed to their car.   Upon leaving our back door my youngest Vivi pointed to the dark sky and exclaimed with incredible delight,  “THE MOON”!  Then her sister, Eli, screamed with excitement “THE MOON”! And they both started clapping their hands as they looked up to the beautiful half moon in the sky. And that is how I want to delight myself also in the Lord.

Now I do Love God and am really excited when talking about Him to people because I want them to know the joy of knowing the creator of the universe. I do suppose that my human condition and my spiritual self are always at battle with each other and that squashes the utter delight my grand daughters experience when seeing the moon.
So I am simply being honest in telling you that I struggle with this.

Here is what and how I do delight in the Lord.
I love to see the nightly sunset.  To me it is a piece of artwork that God creates differently on every horizon in the world.  I have seen the sun set in 14 countries around the world, from Hawaii to Italy, From Baghdad to Switzerland and from Japan to The Cayman islands.  Each a beautiful sight. I love looking at clouds and seeing the images of faces, animals and birds in their fluffy mist.  Most of the time I realize that I am the only one on the beach or the planet for that matter, seeing the image in the sky. I love the motion of the waves of the ocean.  It is amazing to see the constant movement in the sea set in motion by this creator. I delight, usually alone in the car by singing praise songs.  Not that I’m ashamed to do it in public but I have a terrible voice.  I delight in the fact that I know that the Bible tells us that by the time it reaches the ears of God I sound like a talented opera singer.
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Delighting in the Lord is something that we all can work on and I will continue to work on what the first of this verse in Psalms talks about.