Delighting in God
- Elizabeth Nicoll
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min read
‘Your statutes are my delight; they are my counsellors.’ Psalm 119.24
Here is a new way of thinking about the Bible. It’s all too easy to regard it as a book of rules and regulations which we have little hope of keeping, and if we feel like this we will probably open the pages with dread rather than with delight. It all comes down to perspective.
Do we really believe that God inspired the words of the Bible just to wind us up? He knows our natural inclinations and what we really want, but has he decided to spoil our fun? Surely this can’t be the case and he must have had another motive in mind? So much depends on the way we view God. Do you regard him as harsh and vindictive, always out to teach you a lesson; or does he look at you with love, as he whispers something new to keep you out of danger and harm?
It makes all the difference if we can open the Bible and read it as the words of the one who loves us. There will still be questions and things we do not understand, but once we catch God’s heart of love behind it we will be more likely to find the wonder of his delight in us through its words.
Before you read a passage from the Bible, pause and ask the Holy Spirit to help you catch the delight of what you are about to read; then find one gem that you can take into the day ahead.
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