Deeper

“Delight yourself in the Lord and 

He will give you the desires of your heart.”

Psalm 37:4, sounds familiar right? Probably you have memorized for a long time and so was I.

From the New International Reader's Version (NIRV):

"Find your delight in the Lord. Then He will 

give you everything your heart really wants." (emphasis added)

I have known the verse (the NIV one) for a long time, and I have memorized it because I often hear it, from preachers, friends and family in Christ. Back then, when I was still a baby in faith, I view that stated verse materially—that if I acknowledge first God’s kingdom, then He will give me everything I wanted. For years of just attending church intermittently, my comprehension of what David has said is very limited to my hopes and my dreams. It seem like I attend church to test God and seek Him for MY OWN benefits. Yet thank God for his mercy, I wasn’t stuck up with that worldly knowledge. As I hear more of His voice during Sundays and gatherings and as I read more of His words before sleeping for years, unconsciously I understand more of what he really says.

Deeper. I have to think beyond what the text says as I said to myself. As God continues to deal with me with this verse repeatedly, I prayed. And what happened next? He revealed to me what Psalm 37:4 really means. Okay. God is faithful and He keeps His promises that once we delight in Him, He’ll give us what we want. but behind his words lies a greater meaning—once we delight in him, once we enjoy His presence, once we find unexplainable gladness in His authority, we are unknowingly being turned into someone who desires nothing but God. As we seek Him earnestly and then find Him, He gives us peace, joy and love that we don’t wanna let go. Our heart’s desires are then changed, changed to His desire for us. More to this, our heart’s desire turns out to be God himself, making Him become everything we want. He is the sole satisfaction of this life. And this is what should happen—to seek and have more of God into our lives, to please Him and obey Him by having His way for us.

Check this video for a song  entitled "The More I seek You" by Kari Jobe: