Delightful

"God is most Glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in Him." This was the main point that the speaker at our leadership retreat spoke on. We talked about how serving the Lord in an honorable way can be done from duty, desire, or delight. All three are honorable, but only one is the best. We can have all sorts of reasons to read our bibles, pray, go to church, share our faith, go to Christian things, or do good deeds. God wants us to find delight in these things and more than anything he wants us to find delight in Him. It brings him the most Glory when we read our bibles, because we just couldn't help ourselves. Duty and desire are honorable, but what a sweet place it is for us to be when we are delighting in the Lord. After all he did come that we might have life and have it abundantly! His word promises that in his presence are pleasures forever more. The problem is not that we desire lesser things, the problem is that our desire are not great enough. We can desire so little that a lifeless idol might temporarily fulfill that desire. But God wants to give us desires that only he might possibly meet. This is what i have been praying, that God would make my desires so Big, that running to anything else would just seem unthinkable. That my heart would say with the Psalmist. "Whom have i in heaven but you, and earth has nothing a desire but you" oh God. (psalm 73) Why do we settle for lesser joys, when God is continually inviting us to come and find true and full joy in him, like he invites in Isaiah 55. After all Jesus did say that the Kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden in a field. When we finally see just how good it is, we go and sale everything, just that we might have the treasure. We always praise what we prize, and we will never give him the praise he deserves unless we are truly prizing him far above all other things. Fight to Delight in God my friends! he is the only one who can satisfy the thirst in our souls. Thanks for praying!