What's Love Got to Do with It?

Delight Yourself In the Lord (Psalm 37:4)

My mentor mentioned this to me this week.

Delight yourself in the Lord.

As I have been dwelling on this concept, I keep coming back to the first commandment...

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength. (Mark 12:29-31)

Love, Delight, Love, Delight, Love, Delight.

Can it be any more simple?

So many times I find myself coming to God, wanting to have things figured out, wondering why certain things happen, how I should respond, etc.  And here are the same words again....

Love me, delight in me.  Thats all.

I am challenged at how focused I become on doing everything else for God....serving....doing this, doing that, realizing I don't put as much and attention into loving God as I do serving Him.

I have to think of the different ways I try to make my children feel loved, showing them they are worthy of my time and attention.  Though I fail often at this, it is one thing I strive for in parenting - spending time uniquely with each of my children.  Letting them know they are loved.

I'm challenged to spend as much time with my Lord, learning to love Him as I do my children.

Delighting in Him above all else.  Even above serving.  I wonder how my relationship with the Creator would change if I spend as much time in His word and silent before Him as I do serving him.  I bet I would learn more about what it means to delight in Him.

As a new year approaches, I'm challenged to do this - to spend time getting to know Him more, learning what it means to love him, to delight in Him.  I can't say I have it perfected now, because it will involves action, not just sentiment.  Similar to having congruent actions to follow the "I love yous" I say to my children.  Otherwise, it won't be authentic.  

The same is true for my Lord.

Father, please show me what it means to Love you, to delight in you.