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 Make God Your Greatest Delight (April 12, 2023)

“I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8)

We all have our personal “delights,” those joys in life that give us great pleasure and a high degree of gratification. What’s your delight? Lovers delight in intimate romantic relationships. Those who are focused on wealth delight in six-figure salaries. Material possessions such as dream houses, expensive vehicles, and other fine luxuries are popular delights of many as well. Some folks delight in sports and passionately support their favorite team or athlete. There is nothing inherently wrong with many of the pursuits and pleasures in which we delight. Tragically, however, many of our human delights are immoral, inappropriate, and even illegal. Wayward people are drawn to drugs and alcohol, sexual promiscuity, pornography, gambling, gluttony, and other unwholesome fleshly addictions.

“The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17)

Delights are those passions to which we assign high priority in our lives. We must be careful, however, not to allow our personal pleasures and earthly treasures to become idols, anything that we love more and hold in higher esteem than Almighty God. Tragically, we live in a world that is turning away from God rather than seeking to nurture a personal relationship with Him that, unlike the passing riches of this world, has everlasting value—salvation and eternal life! Our risen LORD Jesus Christ died to redeem us of our sins, and He alone deserves the place of highest priority, prominence, and preeminence in our lives. We should delight in God as He does us, having created us in His own image! Trust Him to supply your needs and conform your delights to His perfect will and purpose. Only in Christ do we find true satisfaction and endless delight!

As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” (Psalm 16:3)




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