Hearty Delight

Quick note: if you were expecting this to be some kind of recipe for food, I am sorry to inform you that it is not. Now that you know what it isn't, you probably want to know what it is, though.

Psalm 37:4-5 reads, "Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this."

But before I make applications, let me explain some context. This passage starts off with a challenge, a command, to "not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong."

From the start, then, the Psalmist is saying don't worry when evil people prosper in their ways. Or, to quote the second half of verse 7, "Do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes."


Again, now that we know what not to do, what is it we are supposed to do? And that is what verses 4 and 5 are all about. It all starts with taking delight in the Lord. Then, He will give us the desires of our hearts. Why? Because He loves us and when we take delight in Him, our desires are much more like His.

So we take delight and then we have these desires, what's next? Well, we do have a part to play, but we are not to play the part of God. That is why we commit our way to the Lord and then trust in Him because He is the one that "gives and takes away," as Job put it.

So, if we take delight in the Lord, commit our ways to Him, and trust in Him, it proves only beneficial in many ways!

Consider this picture: Our lives are like a huge white canvas and as time goes by, God adds a little here and a little there. In the end, a beautiful picture is painted, but it is because of what God has done in and through our lives. However, every time we decide to try and paint our own picture (i.e. we go a different way outside of the way we know to follow as we follow Christ), it creates a bad mark on the painting. Thankfully, even when we do mess up, God is faithful to forgive and knows our sin before we do. Not only that, but He died for it and that power conquers all our sins and erases those bad marks.

Point is this: My prayer is that I would take delight in the Lord, commit my ways to Him, and trust in Him with everything I do, including making and selling pens.

Making pens and making a difference!

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