"Delight"
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TODAY’S SCRIPTURE VERSE: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Psalms 40:8 In this passage of scripture it is very easy to sense the exceeding joy of true service that is birthed out of divine love! Notice also the gratification that is expressed in the fulfilment of the divine will of God. The word delight here means to be incline to. We as christians should be inclined to the will of our heavenly Father to the degree that we can say with Christ "not my will, but thine be done". Not only to incline to, but to have pleasure in doing the will of God. The Lord declared "my commandments are not grevious to them that love me", and again the word states "god loveth a cheerful giver". How then can one so cheerfully give their life? The answer is found in the later half of the verse. There can be no delight in the service of God until the divine law is within our heart. The word within here means to sever, to bisect, and by implication "the center". In effect we see a heart that is transplanted by God, a heart that is filled with the divine law of God! A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. "ezekiel 36:26" Even so Lord place your law in our hearts that we may serve you with exceeding joy! |
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