WHERE IS YOUR DELIGHT
Psalm 119:143
Trouble and distress have come upon me, but Your commands give me delight.
We’re starting the second week of our Michigan rifle deer season here. It’s been a pretty good season so far and I’ve enjoyed one day of hunting. I haven’t felt much like going back out to hunt again, as I just don’t have the energy to get up and go. I feel a little like King David in the verse above… “Trouble and distress have come upon me". It’s nothing major just worn out this time of the year.
I find it funny that David writes that trouble and distress have "come upon me"... It’s interesting that we don't have the go looking for trouble, it will come to us without looking for it. We double our "trouble and distress" when we move away from the Lord and dabble on the edge of sin. Temptation will come to us at any time and if we step into it, it will grow and drag us down along with it.
Yet, God's word can bring us delight and joy. The trouble and distress of this world will bring us down, if we let it. But the word of God will lift us out of it. We just must keep it in our forefront.
There is an old saying, "they are good who delight in good things, and they are evil who delight in evil things.". God has given you plenty of good things to delight in. He allows us an escape from the evil things that come on us. We need not fret those things that come upon us, as the trouble and distress that came upon David.
Charles Spurgeon was called the “Prince of Preachers" and yet he had trouble and distress come upon him daily. Spurgeon knew that the time of escape from the troubles of this world was on the horizon. He wrote… ““Troubled one, you will enjoy calm yet. Poor tried and tempted child of God, you will see days in which you will wonder where your troubles are”.
Psalm 37:4-6
Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. 6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Where is your delight today? Are you focusing on the “troubles and distress” that have come upon you or are you looking at the blessings and delight that come from God’s word? It is really up to each of us. We have a choice. Where is your delight?
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