Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Worship for Today: To know God is to have him become our joy and our delight!

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 43:3-4,

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

Here the psalmist describes God as my joy and my delight. I find these terms are of the type someone might make about the endearment felt toward that which is of the most intimate affections. A new born baby becomes my joy and my delight. A lover becomes my joy and my delight. These are terms that single out the object of affection beyond all others: it is this one that is my joy and my delight!

Of how many can it be truly said that God is their joy and their delight? When I am alone and able to reflect on the objects of my affections, is it God that stands apart as my joy and my delight?

The psalmist betrays just how it is that God becomes his joy and delight. He asks God to reveal himself to him. Send forth your light and your truth. He asks God for guidance in how to come into his presence. He asks that Gods light and truth guide him to the place where God dwells. David tells us in Psalm 145 that the Lord is near to all who call on him in truth and James 4:8 tells us that if we come near to God he will come near to us. The point is that if we reach out to God he will reveal himself to us. Herein is the dynamic that takes place for the psalmist when God becomes his joy and his delight.

To know God is to be drawn to him in not only awe, reverence and fascination but also in adoration, love and attraction! To know our Creator is to come home to the One who designed us for a relationship with him! The multi-splendored beauty of God attracts us to him as no other! It is he who is always, and without fail, faithful to us! It is he who has loved us more than any other: he sent his own Son to die for us! It is he who will never ever break one promise! It is he who has the power and the will to do for us all he says he will! It is he who has sealed us for an inheritance that is beyond our imagination, our ability to comprehend! It is he who brings purpose and meaning to life in a way nothing or no one else can! And the magnificence of his beauty! He is described by John as having an appearance of jasper and carnelian with a rainbow resembling an emerald emanating from his throne, Revelation 4:3!

To know God is to have him become our joy and our delight!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!

Trevor V. Fisk

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trevorf@gracehill.org

 

 


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