What does this verse mean?

[brinny]

Originally Posted by brinny View Post
Thank you. Can you give an example of how you "delight" in the Lord?

In reading Scripture, I discovered God's plans for His children are very similar to our plans for OUR children. (Why be scared of anthropomorphism ?) . We know the cost involved and we go ahead. Because the results are worth the cost. Just as we delight in our children, God delights in us.

Amazingly, and a source of great wonderment for me, was finding out this cost involved giving of Himself.

So that we could become His children:

1 John 3:1See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

Thank you. The word you used, "wonderment"....that seems to fit with the word "delight" sorta' like a puzzle fitting (just noticed the word and thinkin' out loud)

Does "delighting" in the Lord have anything to do with why God would've called David the "apple of His eye"?

 

[Wordkeeper]

Thank you. The word you used, "wonderment"....that seems to fit with the word "delight" sorta' like a puzzle fitting (just noticed the word and thinkin' out loud)

Does "delighting" in the Lord have anything to do with why God would've called David the "apple of His eye"?

One finds delight in faith. David had read Scripture, and understood that hard times were manifestations of God's testing. Whilst others murmured and complained, David leaned on the promises God had made to Israel:

1 Samuel 17:26Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

Now you know why God called David a man after His own heart!

Mirrored here:

Numbers 14:24But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

It's hard but we have to remember that God uses trials to examine our faith. We shouldn't complain.

As a reward for belief, God gives us blessings, treasures from His Word:

Galatians 3:5So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

He taught David a joyous secret:

Roman's 4:5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, 6just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]7“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.

[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]8“BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.”

 

[brinny]

Originally Posted by brinny View Post
Thank you. The word you used, "wonderment"....that seems to fit with the word "delight" sorta' like a puzzle fitting (just noticed the word and thinkin' out loud)

Does "delighting" in the Lord have anything to do with why God would've called David the "apple of His eye"?

One finds delight in faith. David had read Scripture, and understood that hard times were manifestations of God's testing. Whilst others murmured and complained, David leaned on the promises God had made to Israel:

1 Samuel 17:26Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

Now you know why God called David a man after His own heart!

Mirrored here:

Numbers 14:24But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

It's hard but we have to remember that God uses trials to examine our faith. We shouldn't complain.

As a reward for belief, God gives us blessings, treasures from His Word:

Galatians 3:5So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

He taught David a joyous secret:

Roman's 4:5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, 6just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]7“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.

[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]8“BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.”

Thank you. Is "delighting" in the Lord having a "heart" for Him?

 

[Wordkeeper]

Thank you. Is "delighting" in the Lord having a "heart" for Him?

Having a heart for God, being faithful to Him, leads to revelations, which cause us delight!

John 17:3Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent

 

[brinny]

Having a heart for God, being faithful, leads to revelations, which cause us delight!

John 17:3

ok, let's slow it down to just focus on the word delight...i'm attempting to get a "picture" of what this actual "delight" in the Lord would look like.....

What would it look like to "delight" in the Lord?

 

[Wordkeeper]

ok, let's slow it down to just focus on the word delight...i'm attempting to get a "picture" of what this actual "delight" in the Lord would look like.....

What would it look like to "delight" in the Lord?

To know that He means us well? We've got the behind the scenes information, the inside track! The peace the world cannot give!


Jeremiah 29:11[bless and do not curse]For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 

[brinny]

Great verse of assurance from God....

What's goin' on in someone's "heart" when they are "delighting" in the Lord? Does it involve the "heart"?

 

[Wordkeeper]

Great verse of assurance from God....

What's goin' on in someone's "heart" when they are "delighting" in the Lord? Does it involve the "heart"?

"Heart" is Hebraism for "mind". Delight is what I feel when God's revelation gives me answers, peace, motivation, goals, meaning for living.

You know how people agonise over life and it's challenges? It can lead to clinical depression, even breakdowns. Well, not any more. Life doesn't have to be that way. Come out of Egypt, follow God. He will spread a bountiful banquet, even in the middle of the desert.

 

[brinny]

Yer hitting on some good stuff here.....

let's continue.....

does "delighting in the Lord" involve "seeking His face"?

 

[Seeking Him]

To me, "delighting in the Lord" means feeling the joy of the Lord.

I especially experience this when I read certain scriptures that seem to come alive and jump off the page. The spirit of the scripture speaks a certain emotion which I feel, its like feeling the heart of God in a way.

I think of when Jesus said "My words are spirit and they are life." It seems like the life of the scripture goes into your heart and I feel the delight and to me what seems like joy.

David said he rejoiced in God's word like one who found great riches.
That God's word was sweeter than the honeycomb.
That the word was pure like silver refined seven times.

 

[brinny]

To me, "delighting in the Lord" means feeling the joy of the Lord.

I especially experience this when I read certain scriptures that seem to come alive and jump off the page. The spirit of the scripture speaks a certain emotion which I feel, its like feeling the heart of God in a way.

I think of when Jesus said "My words are spirit and they are life." It seems like the life of the scripture goes into your heart and I feel the delight and to me what seems like joy.

David said he rejoiced in God's word like one who found great riches.
That God's word was sweeter than the honeycomb.
That the word was pure like silver refined seven times.

Thank you for sharing that.....relating delight to joy, and not just any joy, but the joy of the Lord, and not just His joy but His very heart, seems to fit right in to a verse that combines all of the above, and then a verse that gives an idea of the fervency of a heart seeking His God (as David did for example).

"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." ~Mark 12:30

"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." ~Psalm 41:2

 

[brinny]

....just wonderin'.....is it possible to delight in the Lord without loving Him with all our heart, mind, soul and strength?